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Everyone fails, yes, all of us do, but fact is failure itself isn’t really a problem, although it could be quite devastating when you have a poor respond to it. So it's really up to you to decide what failure means to you. In as much as some person's are motivated by failure, others are slowed by it. Here are some ideas to help you in handling failure:
- De-value Individual Attempt
For Micheal Jordan, he was sent away from the basketball team at high school. Although it wasn't his only attempt, but what if that was his only attempt at becoming a basketball star, he definitely wouldn't have succeeded. But rather he took up more opportunities and showed his talent to the world, this proving his coaches wrong, and subsequently went on to becoming the greatest player. Basketball is a great metaphor for failure due to the nature of persistently shooting the ball, as any player who misses the first shot must understand that more opportunities to shoot would come and missing one shot doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll have a bad game. The first shot might be missed their first shot but then make their next ten in a row. A lot of persons who struggle to handle failure usually place emphasis one instance when they failed. It's true importance, which is almost always small It's usually overvalued, even when it seems significant.
I will have many more opportunities. This is not the end.
Have this in mind.
- Identify Your Personal Advantage
One critical advantage you have over failure is that you only need to succeed once and the very moment, and when you do, it will make up for all the failures in that area. Thomas Edison failed for about thousand number of times before he was able to invent just a light bulb, well a light bulb that has improved human lighting forever. It's the same thing with relationships, the moment you find the right partner, other previous attempts or failed relationships would immediately be a distant memory.
Once you are able to discover the right strategy, you would be able to use it over and over. Let's take for instance, your hair-cut might be bad now, but once you find the right style, and can get it cut that same way every time.
- Dont Let Failure Surprise You
Yeah, the above caption might surprise you, it really sounds awkward, even bad to ask someone to basically expect failure. But a lot of people fail, even the greatest athletes fail, the greatest doctors fail, the greatest people in all their respective fields fail. The point here is in as much as everyone fails, those who find success usually carry out a combination of the following: using smarter strategies, trying more times and trying harder. So whenever you fail, it shouldn't come as a surprise, but rather as an expected part of your race to success. When expectimg to fail sometimes, you can never be slowed by it. let's make it practical, look up one me one successful person who hasn’t failed; I'd like to know.
In conclusion, once you can develop the right perspective, your failures would be more like having some speed bumps in the parking lot. It's really annoying to have to slow down and go over speed bumps one after the other, eventually, you would arrive at the highway, but that to happen you must keep driving. Well, let’s keep driving forward. The worst thing we can do is to do nothing. The lack of failure is perhaps the greatest possible failure ever known as new heights and frontiers in life require a lot of experimentation, and by experimentation, this means occasional or even frequent failure on the way to success.
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Yea failure in essence is actually part of success if you take advantage of it
So true. @worldgreatest.
Just that alotta persons fails to realise this.
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