Kids, don't try this at home.
Welcome to a world where failure is more discredited than ever.
Ask yourself this: Where would we be without failures? Okay, wrong question. Where would we be without failures whose next decision, post-failure, was to try it again with a new twist? Excellent, that’s right…no where. We wouldn’t be or ever be anywhere. We would be stuck.
What is risky? Failure is risky. Hmmm. In order to fail I must first do something that could possibly fail. Exactly! So…Failure is a by-product of action. More specifically, failure is a by-product of imperfect action. It happens all the time to the best, most prolific people in the world. Think about it: Who is perfect? Thus, who makes failure a reality?
Don’t believe the hype that says failure is “so yesterday” or “you’re too big to fail” or “your failure would be the eminent demise of us all.” Don’t believe in the anti-failure hype. Embrace failure as a worthy adversary whom you love because she only makes you sharper.
We grow from our failures. In fact, it may be the only way we genuinely ever change. Is failure a by-product of imperfect action? Of course. Then shouldn’t everyone just play it safe, never act, thus never to be caught by failure? If you want to live that way, sure. But oh yeah, I forgot. There is another by-product of action, and it is called success. Action leads to failure or success. Failure is the best way to become more successful. Success is success, it’s amazing. Either way it seems, action eventually leads to success.
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I believe this is even a bigger outgrowth of a culture that wants to equality for everyone. Failure would seem to create elevation and seperation between people. So early on in life, we teach our kids that, “No one is really a failure”. Then, as young adults, we can’t comprehend the concept of failure, we freak out like big babies when we are on the cusp of failure, and beg our superiors to do anything but brand us with a scarlet F.
It’s crazy. Me? I’ve failed many a time. Flat on my face. I’ve grown from it. I recommend it to everyone. Fail once and awhile. Every failure makes you that much hungrier for success.