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 FAILURE❓❓❓
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 humpπππ
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 CUTSπππ