Do We Embrace FAILURE?
FAILING is an inevitable part of life, BUT feeling like a FAILURE should NOT be the case. Point is, we need to separate FAILING at something from feeling like you are a FAILURE. That pair is NOT an apples-to-apples thing. By NOT feeling like a FAILURE, it should lead us to be nursing hopes and be hopeful of bouncing back [either from embarrassment, rejection, OR humiliation. So, the nagging question we got to resolve today is, Do We Embrace FAILUREโโโ
Yessss dude, FAILURE has its HIDDEN benefits for us to reap, for us to cling on. Sharing below are results from expert studies [so, it's NOT mine]:
- FAILURE forces us to be creative - WHY? At work we may get frustrated after fumbling BUT after we take a moment to process our embarrassment, we can then look for new ways to get back on track
- FAILURE is both an OPTION + OPPORTUNITY. Not to scare but every time we take a risk, failure is a possibility. Visualizing many outcomes can get us past imagining every situation as a catastrophe and also acknowledging the need to do your best
- FAILURE is part of that path to SUCCESS - I guess this does NOT need a hard-sell. FAILURES are ugly ones but identify lessons to value so that in your next attempt, you'll be over the hump๐๐๐
Our takeaway: FAILURE is NOT a social or worse, a personal stigma. It is a fact of life where NO ONE is exempt OR immune. Let's do a roll call of all the famous SUCCESS stories and each of their unique narratives will have a common denominator and that is, they WON'T have SUCCEEDED without all the past FAILURES they had to endure. There's NO shortcut dude, ONLY SURE CUTS๐๐๐
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