Viewing Failure From The Bright Side
Failure is almost inevitable. Every one of us has failed in certain aspects or areas of our lives. It doesn’t have to go noticed; it can be from getting to ride a bicycle, playing basketball, cooking our first dish, or even still writing our first article.
How we handle these moments matter a lot. Failure, on the bright side, can teach us things we thought we knew; but it teaches us in a better way if we are ready to learn and move forward.
So, What Is Failure?
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective and may be viewed as the opposite of success.
More than often, we dread entertaining the idea of failing, we see it like a plague and detrimental to our success. How people see failure and deal with it - whether they possess the ability to look beyond it and keep achieving- impacts every aspect of their lives.
Yet that ability seems difficult to acquire, most people don’t know where to start looking to get it.
Failure isn’t a percentage or a test. It’s not a single event. Failure is a process.
Is Failure Good?
No one likes to fail and it makes perfect sense. Failure doesn’t feel good and it costs us a sizeable chunk of money, time and dignity.
FAILURE IS AN INEVITABLE PART OF LIFE
Whether they’re big or small, none of us can avoid experiencing setbacks from time to time and that’s okay. It’s more than just okay to fail- it’s necessary!! So yes, failure is good.
How Failure Help Boost Productivity
If anything, your potential increases with every failing experience you have. Experiencing failure makes us more compassionate, and that also increases our capacity to make a difference in the world.
Failing fast in life makes you dig deeper and reach those new understandings. You begin to understand why you went through what you went through because you have learned some mistakes, glossed over them and you are ready to persevere.
Through failure, you learn that some of life’s lessons that can’t be earned from success. Failure makes you search for new ways and approaches to do things. Such is the case of Thomas Edison, whose memorable invention was the light bulb, which purportedly took him 1000 tries before he developed a successful prototype.
When Edison was asked “how did it feel to fail 1000 times?” his response was “I didn’t fail 1000 times, the light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.” Because Edison was able to make mistakes, acknowledge them and gloss them over, he used what he learnt to build the light bulb.
Some examples of people that learned from their failure include; J.K Rowling (the renowned author of Harry Potter), Colonel Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Walt Disney, Albert Einstein and many more. Get more insights from here:
How Does Failure Help In Personal Development
1. Failure helps your creative side. When you have a clear purpose, learned some lessons on your journey, you think better, more creative and more innovative.
2. Failing helps you learn. You begin to see things in better, broader and relevant ways.
3. Having accepted the fact that you have failed, you understand why, stand up and try again. The best practice you could do with failure is to practice, grow and strengthen yourself as a better person.
As you continue to journey in life, keep on making mistakes and learn from them. DON’T LET FAILURE KEEP YOU GROUNDED!!
