"Failure is success if we learn from it."
– Malcolm Forbes
"If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."
– Stephen Curry
What is Failure
Failure means different things to different people. The way you interpret failure, that is what it will mean for you. But in general, failure means unable to attain a certain goal or fail to reach expectations. In another word failure is opposite of success.
What does failure mean to you?
To me failure means training. It is the process of success. Like Malcolm Forbes put it, one is a failure when he fail to learn from it. What you learn from your failure is what matters. I am not nagative when i fail rather it becomes a challenge to me to bring out the best in me. Enterprenures are not afraid of failure and if one want to do well in his field, he should not be afraid of failure. One must fail to succeed.
What do you do when you fail?
I have failed several times in this life and will still fail since am open to learn new things. But one i will share with you. When i was learning how sew trousers, i tried to cut it and sew it myself. I put all effort to make it perfect but at the end, as i finish sewing the truoser, it was not good at all. I discovered that, one side was front of the material and the other side was the back of the material.
I felt fustrated, something that took me almost the whole day. I calmed down and loose it. I became more careful this time but made another mistake that I felt more fustrated. I shared tears as i was unable to make myself proud. My master was busy watching my emotions and my pain.
After crying, my master called me and asked me if I would love to sew trousers very well in the future. I said yes i will, that was why I bought this material to learn it very well. He said to me, do you see this type of mistake you made today. You will never do it again because you have learn something no one will teach from it.
He said he knew very well that even if i loose the trouser several times, it will not be good again. He told me that he made the same mistake when he was learning how to sew and today people call him expert. He said without failure, no one can succeed. I wiped my tears and thanked him so much.From that day, i never repeat that mistake. I sew trousers every day until I become expert like my master. 2 of my colleagues quit the work that it is too difficult. So you failed is not what matters but what you learned from it. Just like what Stephen Curry said, if you don't fall, you will never know what getting up is.
What advice would you give to someone who has failed?
My advice to someone who has fail is to get up. Fail and learn, what did you learn from it. No one is a failure onless you decide to be one. The opportunity to get up is there. You can make great difference from your failure. Never take it into your head that you are a failure. Never call someone a failure. Remember, no failure, no success.
I encourage you to get up and smile. Right the wrong. Stop dwelling on the past, what you have in the future is more than your past. Sit down and calculate lessons learned from it , you will see how far you will go. No successful person who have not fail several times. Do you think that everything you know today about technology just came out on one attempt by the inventors. Not at all, they made mistakes, failed and failed before they get it correct. You too can do the same.
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