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The Road to Transformation

• Linda Tancs
  Oct 23 2010, 03:28 PM
  There's a line in the movie Eat Pray Love where Julia Roberts' character remarks that ruin is the road to transformation. The remark was sparked by a tour of an ancient Roman ruin, but its deeper meaning is related to failures in life as the film's story line indicates. It's a compelling statement, and oftentimes we do think of transformation in the context of some failure that preceded it. But why focus on failure? I prefer Thomas Edison's famous positioning statement: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Those "10,000 ways" are success stories, don't you think? Every time we discover a way that doesn't work, we're that much closer to finding a way that does work--and learning a whole lot about ourselves in the process. The point is that transformation isn't an event, it's a process. Think about what you've learned from your "10,000 ways." Would you have learned as much without them?
  
  

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