Are you ready to be a failure?

Have you ever had that feeling, where you really believe that you're right about something? To the point where you won't listen to what anyone else has to say about the matter because you're persistence has gotten in the way? If you have - I'm sure you know what it's like to be then proven wrong. It's like when you're in school and you get an exam paper back - what you thought was a really good answer is cast into the background by a big, red 'X'. Well, this is slightly like the feeling I got today, when reading about the latest research on dinosaurs. It appears that our scaly friends were, in fact, half the weight that scientists initially thought. They apparently were a lot smaller than the greatest brains behind science once anticipated. There goes the believability of Jurassic park eh? After this discovery, and now that we’re very much aware of the spherical shape of the earth – it’s left me wondering – what else are we ignorant about? Are we going merrily about our lives, believing everything everyone tells us, just because it’s the easiest option? Well, one example of me questioning my own beliefs is as follows.

Due to bleak the bleak economic outlook, my escalating fear of not standing out after my degree has led me to not only dedicate myself to my own blog, but to also read other people's (I can assure you there's a slight social life in there somewhere, too). I recently came across some interesting words by John Chow, a successful blogger - http://www.johnchow.com/blog/
He wrote that, when an unsuccessful person talks about their goals, they use words such as 'hope to', ‘eventually’ and 'someday'. And that those who succeed have no fear of failing because success is made up from ' a string of failures'. And somehow, these words really jumped out of the page (well...screen...) at me. I’d never really thought about this before. Have I been clouding my own brain with unhelpful words?
I think that a lot can be said about a person by listening to their vocabulary. Out of my friends, I think I can pick out those that will be high-fliers, and those that will desperately cling on to the hope of winning the lottery every week. In other words, type A and type B people.
I know that this may all sound a little narrow minded, but surely, if you fill your sentences with negative words, these words will have an effect on your mentality, and you'll be programmed subconsciously to not achieve your goals. And really, how likely is that you can rely on winning the lottery?
It makes me sound a little weird I know, but I make sure that every day I do something to get myself a little bit closer to one of my goals. Reading about the bleak future of redundancy ahead for a lot of fresh University graduates, I think that it's time for me to seek out failure. I think, ironically, that’s my only hope of succeeding.