Is Failure Good...????
Life’s Greatest Teacher
“Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers sadly, most people, and
particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there,”
The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big. “Instead
they choose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same
safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief that if
they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them
for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which
they could possibly fail (or succeed).”
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Reaching Your Potential
 When we think of people with this mindset, we imagine the daredevils,
the pioneers, the inventors, the explorers: They embrace failure as a
necessary step to unprecedented success
Of course, the risks we take should be calculated; we shouldn't fly
blindly into the night and simply hope for the best. Achieving the goal
or at least waging a heroic effort requires preparation, practice and
some awareness of our skills and talents.
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Easing Into a Fearless Mindset
 “One of the biggest secrets to success is operating inside our strength
zone but outside of our comfort zone,”. Although We might fail
incredibly, We might succeed incredibly—and that’s why incredible risk
and courage are requisite. Either way, we’ll learn more than ever about
our strengths, talents and resolve, and we’ll strengthen our will for
the next challenge.
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Easing Into a Fearless Mindset
 “if I become complacent and don’t take risks, someone will notice what I
am doing and improve upon my efforts over time, and put me out of work.
we've got to keep finding better ways to run our life, or someone will
take what we've accomplished, improve upon it, and be very pleased with
the results. Keep moving forward or die.”
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Easing Into a Fearless Mindset
 The most common outcome from any experiment is failure. Most successful
science is generated by refuting our hypotheses, by demonstrating we
were wrong and that our earlier attempts were failures. It is the
examination of the details of the failures, the reconstituting of our
approaches that gets us closer to success. Think about the development
of electric lights, antibiotics, the internet… all great successes whose
antecedents were rife with failures.
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Think about the practice of science itself
 The majority of scientists are wrong most of the time and nearly all
athletes fail most times they attempt a goal, a hit, or a basket. The
rate of failure and the heartbreak associated with it is part and parcel
of our everyday lives. So why then, do we take failure so hard?
Because we forget that success is achieved through trying, and trying
most often ends in failure.
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Think about the practice of Science itself
 Not all failures turn into successes and many are indeed insurmountable.
But that is not the point. It is the human ability to imagine, to
hope, and to work towards seemingly impossible or improbable goals that
plays such a core role in why we are here on the planet. Having hope and
acting on that hope, and having the ability to retain that hope even
after a setback, is central to human innovation...and to our future.
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Assemble Your Support Group.
It's no surprise that failure hurts emotionally and often bruises your
ego the most. Make sure you have unconditional supporters in your life
who will let you talk it out, work through the pain, and help bring you
back to emotional normalcy. Active-listeners are essential as we process
our failure and begin to learn from these mistakes.
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Give Up The Guilt.
 It tooks us a really long time to get to this point but I'm here and I'm
never going back to succumbing to guilt. Skip the shame, we ALL fail.
Shit happens and sometimes things don't work out as we planned. Welcome
to real life! Embrace constructive criticism, fight perfectionism
because it's unattainable and debilitating, and focus on what we do well
-- not what others think. Chances are, the others are not really
thinking about you anyway. Move on!
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Take Risks Again.
 Take the time to unpack our failure and figure out what we have learned
but don't let the set back deter us from moving forward. If we stop
taking risks we will become inert and lose our mojo and our nerve. Be a
disruptive innovator, take a chance again and learn how to fail forward.
Go big or go home!
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Failure means you have courage
 Even though we didn't get the results we wanted, at least we were trying
to do something. So many people let the fear of failure prevent them
from reaching for their dreams. So don’t be worried about a failure – at
least we had the courage to have a go. Courage is not the absence of
fear; it is feeling the fear and taking action anyway. When we have a
go, despite the possibility of failure, we show that we have great
courage.
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Failure makes you stronger
 When we don’t get the result we want, we can become more determined to
succeed. At first we probably feel discouraged, frustrated or upset but
these feelings don’t last forever. We then get a burst of determination
and strength of purpose to try again. Failure makes us more focused on a
successful outcome next time.
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Failure Provides Answers
 If we don’t try and fail, you will never know if your idea or method is
going to work. We spend time worrying that we don’t have the answer; we
wonder whether it would have worked. The pain of regret is far worse
than the pain of failure. When we fail, we can start again; with regret,
we will never know.
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Failure Gives You The Best Chance Of Success
 Don’t view failure as bad luck, instead look at each attempt to reach
your goals as a triumph. There’s always something to learn, ways to
grow, different viewpoints to see, and new opportunities waiting just
around the corner. So get in and have a go. Fail fast and recover
quickly to try again. Use every failure as an opportunity to learn and
to grow as a person. Remember that every failure is like one step on the
stairway to success. Above all else, remember this: If we never fail,
we will never succeed.
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Some Needful Quotes
(1) “There’s a difference between saying failure is probable,” I suggested,
“and promoting it as acceptable.”
(2) “Why do we fail? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
(3) “It’s true that not everyone is positive by nature,”
(4)“To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risks,”
Good can come of failure, but failure itself is n’t inherently good."
(5)“The quickest road to success is to possess an attitude toward failure
of ‘no fear,’ ”
We should fear it, because failure bloodies our nose and breaks our
bones — but we should always, always pick ourselves up. When we do,
we’ll stand taller and we’ll walk further, and that’s truly worthy of celebration
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