Dad, what's the difference between failure and defeat?
A student with very good grades approached his father, after receiving a bad grade, and questioned him:
Dad, what is the difference between failure and defeat?
Why are you asking me," his father answered. Very simply, I just received a bad grade in a subject that I really wanted to do, however, it seems that what I did was not enough, and I failed.
I want to know if this was a failure or a defeat.
Very good, son. I appreciate your confidence in coming with me, and I'll explain the difference.
Failure is a wrong path that when you've already gone down it, you don't go down it again. Let's say it's like a small step towards the final goal.
On the other hand, a defeat is to renounce to go through that wrong path, it is to give in to the obstacles you find, in short, it is to refuse the possibility of turning failure into success.
Dad, it's just that since I failed, I have doubts about continuing with my studies..., I don't know what I'm going to do with my future. You tell me, what do I do?
If you, son, before failing, had already decided what you want in life, and every day you strive to achieve your goal, your determination being so convincing, that nothing and nobody can stop you, go ahead.
If you are convinced of what you want, nothing will stand in the way of achieving your dream. The obstacles in the path of the weak become steps in the path of the successful.
Do you understand me, son? Yes, Dad. It is very clear to me. But what attitude should I have to overcome the obstacles?
Behave like the mountaineer who visualizes the summit of the mountain as the goal to be conquered, and converts the obstacles and dangers, with a determining and iron attitude, seeing everything as a challenge to be overcome.
As a challenge to turn it into success. Because, the one who has no desire to reach the top, is easily discouraged by the risks, and without having initiated, or just starting, he gives up.
Remember this, son, every time you fail, you will find an important lesson that you will assimilate to feel more strengthened on the way to achieving your goals.
If you have already defined and decided what you want in life, and day by day you feed your determination to achieve it, it will be difficult to stop you; your conviction is such that the obstacles cease to be obstacles, and instead, you observe them as triggers to achieve your plan of realization.
Each failure, each failure we then convert into a favored wind, assimilating the lesson, increasing our experience, and strengthening our determination to achieve our purposes. It is better to give up living than to declare defeat, to be a loser because one has stopped fighting. There is only one goal to have in life: to bet everything to succeed.
