Is Failure Good...???

 MySAR for 21st September

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).” 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. 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. 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.” 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. 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. 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. 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. 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! 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!  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. 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.  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.  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. 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