Failure is the best teacher
"There is no failure except in not trying" - Elbert Hubbard (American writer)
Failure jolts you. May be you were not prepared. You start introspecting as to what went wrong (unless of course you knew already that you would fail for certain reasons!). It gives a lot of insight into the whole process, analyzing each and every step. You will know the exact reasons that resulted in your failure. In your next attempt you would avoid such glaring mistakes. The chances of success become more. Still you might commit some other mistake (not in the list of your earlier mistakes). Eliminate it in the next try. So, this is a continuous process. We keep learning throughout our lives. Embrace your failures and learn the lessons from the failures.
Has anyone learnt cycling without falling down, a number of times? And after we learn it properly, we will not forget riding a bicycle in our lives, even if there is a big gap between the cycling expeditions. Likewise, swimming and many other similar things.
Even great players of any game, run the replay of their games, several times (in slow motion, if necessary) and analyze the mistakes they had committed. They correct those mistakes in their next games. If needed, they practice the correct way, over and over again, till they master it. When we watch, for example, a tennis match in which Federer and Nadal play, it would look as if they are hitting the ball with ease, to different corners (at acute angles), anticipating the course of the ball and moving towards it in time, and hitting it back. But we would never know the earlier mistakes they made and how they corrected them, by constant practice.
This happens in business too. Even the great stalwarts of business make occasional mistakes. What they had in mind for a new business would have overlooked some aspect of the business, which might cause the failure of the venture. It is not that they do not know the nuances of business. I am talking about established players in the field. Even they make (silly) mistakes (inadvertently, of course). They have the domain knowledge to correct them immediately and work on the course correction. They will succeed eventually. The failure would have taught them a valuable lesson in the process.
The recent failure in the last few minutes of the mission of Chandrayan-2, must have taught the scientists and researchers a few new lessons, which I am sure will be avoided in the next successful mission.
If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new. Failure is the stepping stone to success, as they say. We can quote many personalities who failed miserably in their lives but attained the greatest heights later, due to their determination and dedicated work. Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, The Beatles, to quote a few....
So, never lose heart, looking at a failure. This means you have failed in your venture, and you are not a failure. Find out the mistakes and keep correcting the mistakes and you will eventually succeed (without fail)! Persistence with your efforts and perseverance will see you through....
If you learn from others' failures and mistakes, you are great. If you learn from your own failures and mistakes, you are still good. If you don't learn from anybody's failures and mistakes, you need to improve....
Failure jolts you. May be you were not prepared. You start introspecting as to what went wrong (unless of course you knew already that you would fail for certain reasons!). It gives a lot of insight into the whole process, analyzing each and every step. You will know the exact reasons that resulted in your failure. In your next attempt you would avoid such glaring mistakes. The chances of success become more. Still you might commit some other mistake (not in the list of your earlier mistakes). Eliminate it in the next try. So, this is a continuous process. We keep learning throughout our lives. Embrace your failures and learn the lessons from the failures.
Has anyone learnt cycling without falling down, a number of times? And after we learn it properly, we will not forget riding a bicycle in our lives, even if there is a big gap between the cycling expeditions. Likewise, swimming and many other similar things.
Even great players of any game, run the replay of their games, several times (in slow motion, if necessary) and analyze the mistakes they had committed. They correct those mistakes in their next games. If needed, they practice the correct way, over and over again, till they master it. When we watch, for example, a tennis match in which Federer and Nadal play, it would look as if they are hitting the ball with ease, to different corners (at acute angles), anticipating the course of the ball and moving towards it in time, and hitting it back. But we would never know the earlier mistakes they made and how they corrected them, by constant practice.
This happens in business too. Even the great stalwarts of business make occasional mistakes. What they had in mind for a new business would have overlooked some aspect of the business, which might cause the failure of the venture. It is not that they do not know the nuances of business. I am talking about established players in the field. Even they make (silly) mistakes (inadvertently, of course). They have the domain knowledge to correct them immediately and work on the course correction. They will succeed eventually. The failure would have taught them a valuable lesson in the process.
The recent failure in the last few minutes of the mission of Chandrayan-2, must have taught the scientists and researchers a few new lessons, which I am sure will be avoided in the next successful mission.
If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new. Failure is the stepping stone to success, as they say. We can quote many personalities who failed miserably in their lives but attained the greatest heights later, due to their determination and dedicated work. Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, The Beatles, to quote a few....
So, never lose heart, looking at a failure. This means you have failed in your venture, and you are not a failure. Find out the mistakes and keep correcting the mistakes and you will eventually succeed (without fail)! Persistence with your efforts and perseverance will see you through....
If you learn from others' failures and mistakes, you are great. If you learn from your own failures and mistakes, you are still good. If you don't learn from anybody's failures and mistakes, you need to improve....
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