What is failure?
A person will define ‘failure’ based on who he is personally. So, forget about dictionary definition for the word spelt as ‘failure’, at least for now.
Whatever definition you attach to it, that’s it.
Now, this is what this blog is all about as a reminder: to bring on an healthy and unalloyed meanings to make-ups of goodly success. Let’s do away with what a lexicon tends to put ‘failure’ at.
If you see failure or a temporary defeat as a raw material to what you are aiming at, so much the better. This is not the first of writing where I will put emphasis on the sheer difference between the mindsets, of the small and great.
Ford said that failure or disappointment is an opportunity to start, again, in a better way. Granted, it means there is an element of truth to learn from of what seemingly befalls us termed ‘defeat’.
I have never seen anyone with so much fame of success which has never been bitten by the bug called failure. For real, the more the failure, the bigger the brilliant shining in the final outcome.
The great souls you probably envy have failed more than you. Do you know why? It is so simple: they have made more attempts than you. It would be an unbalanced life if another person had to invent the incandescent lamp other than Edison, who laboured the most to infuse life enough into that vision. Who told you that none, before him, had conceived that selfsame idea? We don’t hear of them because they didn’t attempt to fail at all.
If you fail enough, but never give up, soon this life will become unbiased as to reward you for wooing her to deliver to you.
Why is failure a rudiment for success?
ONE, we learn through practice, we become perfected via much activities. Therefore this for one, until we have been chiseled off, of rough and blunt edges about ourselves, skilfulness can’t be in view. Don’t be scared of falling in your first attempt of scaling the Everest.
TWO, like unto the first, there are lessons to learn before succeeding. You would see that all things, of principles and laws hardly go together. What makes you worse can’t be the same as what makes you better. As the state-of-the-art technologies emerge by the day, come to think of it, they were not like this before now. The technologies of today are audibly referring to their previous versions as ‘misfits’. Yet, new things are born of the old things. Can you grab the drift? Lessons are learnt, laws are mastered; before failure eventually becomes success, works are done.
THIRDLY, beyond contradition, I want to believe that it’s a ruling principle with a universal appeal. It’s an arrangement of the Divine used to separate and reward the hardworking and the slothful. It’s a version of the law of sowing and reaping. If you continue to put in efforts, though failure seems to greet your face, the resultant force eventually will add up, and people will later call you a big, overnight success.
Lasting success doesn’t really come easy. And if you have had your own quite easy, with few or no lessons having learnt, don’t take any of my writing serious. Or rather, don’t visit this blog again, because I have told you some ‘perceived lies’.
If we are together, rather see failure as a seed to sow, price to pay.
The fear of failure is the foundation of lasting failure. The winners don’t fear failure, that’s why failure rather fears them, and paves way for them. If I had not told you this, it means I’m a failure myself.
Winners don’t fear failing or falling…because it is not real!
