Success from Failure?

If I didn't make mistakes, how would I learn? I wouldn't succeed. I wouldn't be able to make a decision any wiser than the last.  Thomas Edison said:

  "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

How did he get there? By trying. Rather than thinking about it as failure, think of it as figuring out what doesn't work. And once he figured out what did work, he succeeded! I can't focus on what doesn't work. Rather, I must move forward, remembering what I learned from the last try, and apply a different method of  handling the situation. Successes only come with failures, and failures come from trying. Trying is the first step.