Copying Failure to Succeed: The Ultimate Business Lesson from the Wright Brothers
Copying Failure to Succeed: The Ultimate Business Lesson from the Wright Brothers
I find it absolutely mind-boggling that as recently as the year 1901—just over a century ago—it was very widely believed that mechanized flying was completely impossible. To get something heavier than air up in the sky was deemed an unachievable dream. Reputable newspapers and top experts all over the world had firmly confirmed this. The common consensus among people back then was simple: leave flying to the birds of the air.
Well, all that changed rather dramatically. The way it changed contains a very interesting and valuable business lesson for us today. There is a profound secret hidden in the history of aviation that can completely shift how you approach making money and building a venture.
The Secret of Creative Imitation: How Billions Are Made
Before we dive deeper into the fascinating story of flight, let us spell out the first business lesson. There are people who have made billions of dollars and even greater fortunes simply by copying successes. They look at something that is already thriving, study its mechanics carefully, copy it, sell it, and make an absolute fortune.
This process is formally known as creative imitation. Creative imitation is the exact secret behind how Japan rose from the ashes of the Second World War to become a dominant world financial superpower. It is the exact same strategy that the Chinese are deploying right now on a massive global scale. They study an existing product, find an innovative way to produce it cheaply, and then they mass-produce it for the global market.
Consider the smartphone industry as a perfect example. An innovative company creates a highly sophisticated, very expensive smartphone. They might target a selective market to sell around 100,000 units. Then, the Chinese study that exact smartphone. They find clever ways to produce it cheaply by using more affordable materials and taking calculated manufacturing shortcuts. Voila! Suddenly, consumers can buy a functioning smartphone at a mere fraction of the original cost. Instead of settling for a small pool of buyers, the imitators target millions of units or more.
Everybody knows that you can copy success stories. You can take an existing concept, execute it in your own way, do it better, and make a massive fortune. But while copying success is a well-known path, there is a much more powerful, untapped technique that almost nobody talks about.
The Contrarian Path: Copying Miserable Failures
The core lesson you are going to learn today is how you can copy failures—miserable failures—and make a massive fortune for yourself. It might sound hard to believe at first, but it is absolutely true: the only reason we have aircraft flying in the sky today is because someone used this exact technique. The invention of mechanized flight was achieved by systematically copying and analyzing miserable failures.
Everyone is familiar with the legendary story of the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, and what they achieved at a windy place called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the United States. Incidentally, that coastal location is just slightly over 800 miles away from the famous Bermuda Triangle. While the world knows what happened on that historic day of December 17, 1903, when mankind conquered the skies for the very first time, most people are completely blind to the specific events and activities that led up to it.
The history-defining breakthrough was achieved by two high school dropouts. I emphasize this detail heavily because one of the most common excuses I hear from people who fail to fulfill their destiny or use their GOD-given talents to the best of their ability is: "I didn't go to college," "I hardly went to school," or "I don't have a university degree." They allow themselves to be entirely limited by their lack of formal credentials.
Let me tell you a secret: college and university education is not cheap. Because people invest a fortune to go through that system, do you think they will allow you to feel good about not doing the same? Of course not! But their opinions do not matter. What truly matters is you, where you are right now, what resources you have available, and what you choose to do with them. If you don't have a college degree or a formal education, so what? It does not stop you from achieving greatness.
Research And Auditing the Dead
To prove that this is a reality, let us look closely at what the Wright brothers did before their success at Kitty Hawk. Think of someone in your small, remote village who repairs bicycles for a living. That is precisely what Orville and Wilbur Wright did. Admittedly, repairing bicycles is a form of mechanical engineering—very basic mechanical engineering—but it is mechanical engineering nonetheless.
These two bicycle-repairing high school dropouts decided they were going to tackle aeronautical engineering and get an object to fly. They started their journey entirely with research. But how did they conduct this research? They researched failures.
In those days, the internet did not exist. They had to rely on what we call "snail mail" today. They went deep into libraries and wrote physical letters to people and organizations across the world, asking for as much raw information as they could get regarding failed flight projects. They sought out records from people who had attempted to fly and failed miserably—including accounts of pioneers who had tragically lost their lives trying.
Inside the Wind Tunnel: Correcting the Expert Errors
As the Wright brothers compiled this data of past failures, they zeroed in on a critical testing tool: the wind tunnel. A wind tunnel is an enclosed structure used to test the precise effects of wind moving against a solid object. By directing a stream of air at a known velocity through the tunnel, an operator can carefully observe exactly how an object behaves against that moving wind.
When these self-taught brothers began testing the historical data inside their own wind tunnel, they made a shocking discovery: a large portion of the information and previous calculations sent to them by the "experts" was entirely wrong. The baseline mathematical calculations that previous inventors had relied upon in their failed projects were fundamentally flawed.
Because they analyzed these failures from a clean slate, they managed to isolate the exact reasons why those past projects had crashed. They corrected the faulty calculations, established the accurate mathematical metrics, and set to work building a flying machine based on verified truth.
They learned that what keeps an aircraft up in the air is the behavior of the wind moving under the wings—a basic aerodynamic rule that remains completely identical today. If a pilot tries to make an aircraft climb too quickly, the plane will stall and fall out of the sky because there isn't enough wind under the wing to keep it aloft. Aeronautical engineers refer to this crucial force as lift. Following their new, corrected calculations, the Wright brothers realized they needed to dramatically increase their wing area to an unprecedented size of more than 500 square feet.
The long and short of it is simple: because they corrected the mathematical mistakes of the past, the Wright brothers already knew their machine was going to fly before they ever stepped onto the sands of Kitty Hawk. It was an experiment, yes, but they were entirely sure of the outcome because their underlying math was correct.
When they launched on December 17, 1903, the flight lasted precisely 59 seconds and covered 852 feet. Reading about it today, it might seem small because it didn't even last a full minute. But history had been made. A human being had successfully taken off from the ground in an invented machine and flown like a bird, all because the inventors chose to study miserable failures and turn them into a success.
Skip the Mistakes: The Ultimate Business Shortcut
This strategy is not unique to aviation history. Many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs have done the exact same thing: they carefully study where others have failed before them, learn from those downfalls, and build a thriving success out of the ruins.
Studying failures is an amazing shortcut that makes immense practical sense. Think about it logically: Is there any real need for you to go out into the business world, execute an idea blindly, and make the exact same painful mistakes others have already made just to discover those errors for yourself ? Is there any sense in wasting your own time and money repeating history?
Isn't it much better to completely skip the mistakes of others while actively correcting them? Doing this naturally places you much closer to your ultimate goals.
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Action and Adaptation: Launching Your Venture
Admittedly, the Wright brothers' first flight only lasted for 59 seconds and covered 852 feet—but the crucial point is that it flew. When you take our pre-tested business blueprints, all you have to do is implement them, apply your own personal modifications and improvements, and your business will fly for much longer.
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Key quotes from this article;
"They find clever ways to produce it cheaply by using more affordable materials and taking calculated manufacturing shortcuts. Voila! Suddenly, consumers can buy a functioning smartphone at a mere fraction of the original cost. Instead of settling for a small pool of buyers, the imitators target millions of units or more."
"Whether you run a small kiosk, work as a solo consultant, or manage a large enterprise, these strategies will permanently shift how you pull in revenue..."
"The eBook is formatted as a lightweight PDF file so you can easily download it to your smartphone and implement one game-changing idea the next time you are stuck in a Nairobi traffic jam."
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