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6 Reasons Why Failure Is As Equally Important As Success
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Failure
At some point in life, all of us have failed. It could be something as simple as not getting through a driving licence test or something as big as losing in an international competition.
Failure doesn’t mean that you haven’t worked hard; it simply means that you need to take another approach to achieve what you want.
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Failure is good in achieving success
- Failure Strengthens You. Failure can tear you down but it also builds you to be a stronger person.
- Failure Gives You a Sense of Direction. You get a sense of clarity on everywhere you have gone wrong and how to take a better path to reach where you want to be.
- Failure Teaches You to Value all the right things in order to succeed.
- Failure Gets Rid Of Fear. Once you are accustomed to failing you have nothing left to fear anymore.
- Failure is an Opportunity. It shows us everywhere we might have gone wrong and gives us the opportunity to correct it.
- Failure is an Experience and could give us a deeper understanding of life and alter the way we look at everything that happens around us.
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Fear of failure
We are taught from a young age that failure is bad and something to fear. But, failure is an excellent stepping stone to success.
We never learn to move out of our comfort zone ...
Failure is temporary
... and failure is good even if it feels really bad when it happens.
Look for the greater message of the experience and expect it to, eventually, turn out for the good.
Routine failing
It means you are actually active, doing something, moving forward.
We limit ourselves, and we impede our ability to make big things happen when we buy into what society says will work or not work.
We must take a leap, take calculated risks, and be patient for the results. We don’t need to have everything worked out beforehand.
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Thomas Edison on failure
Failure Is Life’s Greatest Teacher
“Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there...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).”
- Ralph Heath
Failure is essential for success
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Importance of failure
We need to start talking about failure as life's master instructor. Experiences in failure are less about not finding success than they are about problem solving, and the skills cultivated a...
People who turned failing into success
- JK Rowling. One of the most powerful modern writers whose net worth hovers around $1 billion was once living on welfare.
- Walt Disney. Before the Disney empire was built, he was fired as a writer for lacking imagination and good ideas.
- Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first TV job as a news anchor for being too emotionally invested in the stories she covered.
Steven Spielberg was rejected by the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts multiple times. Today, the profit of his movies exceeds $9 billion.
Lady GaGa, with 6 Grammy awards and entry to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, was dropped as a young artist after 3 months with record label Island Def Jam.
Stephen King's failure and rejection as a writer persisted well into his adult years, before striking gold with his story, Carrie.