1️⃣Do you consider failing to be less, equal, or more important than succeeding in life, and why? 𝐀𝐍𝐃 / 𝐎𝐑 ~ 2️⃣What do you consider to be the most important lessons that we should teach our children?
Brett Jordan
A popular proverb opined that “smooth seas do not make skillful sailors”. Honestly, often, it is in failure that some great investors and entrepreneurs find their true strength. Show me an individual who claims they haven’t failed and I will show you someone who hasn’t tried anything." Failure is never the end of life. But for me, it is the end of a new beginning.
Failure always opens us to greater success and breakthroughs. I remember failing English in my West African Examination Certificate (WAEC). I could not believe my eyes. I applied for a re-sit and scored a “B”.
Brett Jordan
I consider failure an important tool for correction and a boost to success. I do not think that anyone would want to fail and remain a failure. No. rather, it is a learning and unlearning process; it teaches us patience and humility. Failure is an important part of our success story, without which our journey would be flavourless.
Conversely, success is the mother hen; failure + success = growth. Success is a rebuilder, especially after failure. It motivates and boosts our ego. It is relishing and impacting. Success takes us to another level of happiness, and could slide into pride and arrogance.
In conclusion, an individual could become myopic and irrelevant because their experience is not refined by failure; such a person might not be consulted when support is needed in life's journey. Therefore, it is a good thing for one to fail so that the individual can gain experience and have a solid ground for growth and development.
Jairo Gonzalez
On the second question,1️⃣ . What do you consider to be the most important lessons that we should teach our children?
Train up a child in the way that they would go, when they grow old, they will not depart from it. It is also good to catch them young. For me, “Love “is the greatest. When our children are taught how to love at a tender age, the possibility of growing wild, doing sinister things in secret, will be minimal.
Love forgives, it does not hate, envy, gossip, backbite, be easily angered, bear no grudge, or seek revenge. Love is patience and kindness.
For me, when a child is loved, trained in love, and shown love, it impacts the child and helps the child during challenges. The child will grow in love and will also love others.
But when this is not done from childhood, the reverse would be the case. Vices and all sorts of negative energy will be the order of the day.
In conclusion, love summarises and supersedes every other lesson that I could teach my children.
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