{"id":468,"date":"2020-08-15T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/?p=468"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:02:19","slug":"failure-is-better-teacher-than-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/2020\/08\/15\/failure-is-better-teacher-than-success\/","title":{"rendered":"FAILURE IS BETTER TEACHER THAN SUCCESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Crawling,\ntrembling as a baby learns to walk,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For\nevery time it falls, for every time it stumbles,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nlearns to put forth a step firmer;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From\nplaying hide-and-seek to playing blind man\u2019s buff,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nevery wounded elbow, with every bleeding knee,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nchild unfolds ways to play it better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\ngrow up hearing age old sayings like \u201cFailure is the pillar of success\u201d or\n\u201cFailure is the stepping stone to success\u201d, which so repeatedly form a part of\nany motivational speech we  deliver or\nany inspiring article that we  write. But\nhow often do we find ourselves being able to see eye to eye with what such\nmaxims hint at? To what extent are we optimistic enough to see the silver\nlining lurking behind a cloud of failure? Failure and success are two sides of\nthe same coin
\nwhere we associate the former with defeat, rejection, disappointment and\ndarkness while the latter with victory, acceptance, glory and illumination.\nSuccess is envisaged by all while failure is anticipated by none. Failure is\nfrightening and creates terror in the mind. What is worse is that this\nfear  of failure stops us from even  trying. It is indeed so deep-rooted that we\nare pulled back from doing what we want to do; from reaching where we want to\nreach. History is a witness to the fact that anyone who has been able to land\non success could have done it only after he had swam across failures. In other\nwords, there  is no success without\nfailure. Now, there are two perspectives of viewing this statement. First,\nfailure will always try to obstruct one from reaching  one\u2019s goal. Second, failure is a part and\nparcel of success and
\nevery failure has a lot to contribute to the success one achieves. The former\nview creates anxiety and uncertainty while the latter gives birth to an\nopportunist perception of acknowledging the prominence of every failure on the\nglory of success. No successful man can ever deny the fact that with every\nfailure that came his way, he could discover a better way to succeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patience\nand perseverance coupled with the determined will to learn from what every\nsingle failure invites prove a milestone to success. It is easy to give up but\nhard holding on without letting despondency set in. This power of forbearance\nis a lesson which no success but only failure can impart. It was this\nperseverance and right attitude that enabled great people like Abraham Lincoln\nor Nelson Mandela survive the countless setbacks that they faced. Loss of his\nmother at the tender age of nine, failure in business, demise of his wife,\nincalculable defeats in his political career for more than a score of years,\nnothing could make the glimmer inside Abraham Lincoln fade and so he could\neventually stand tall as the 16th President of the United States of America.\nNeither could twenty-seven years in the prison tear apart a single inch of the\ndreams that Nelson Mandela dreamt. \u201cI have not failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000\nways that won\u2019t work\u201d were the words of the greatest inventor of America,\nThomas Alva Edison, who could see success in every fiasco  they came across. It was this hopefulness\nwhich made  them keep trying and\nmending  their work until success became\ninevitable. Optimism is a powerful tool that can change even what is destined\nand anyone who manages to remain optimistic even when he has failures one after\nthe other thrashing him down is the one who can keep strong not just in good\ntimes but also when the going is tough. Also, we grow with every failure and we\nmature with every defeat. Failure gives us a clearer vision to see our own\nmistakes. It makes us more compassionate; gives us reasons to understand the\nworth of the life we live. Failure is the test that makes our loyal mates stand\nout among all the other fair-weather friends thereby improving our understanding\nof relations. Herein, reference may be made to the aftermath of the Battle of\nKalinga in the life of King Ashoka. The repercussions caused by the\nunprecedented bloodshed were so deep that the emperor became a changed person\naltogether. The catastrophic battle left him plundered. He was devastated at\nthe thought that due to his actions thousands of parents became childless,\ncountless children orphaned and numerous women widowed. Such devastation made\nhim embrace ahimsa <\/em>and give up violence of all kinds. He became an\nepitome of benevolence and it is due to such reasons that annals of history\nsuffix his name as \u2018Ashoka the Great\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failure\nis, many a  time, an opportunity; it is a\nchance to dream bigger and to aim for greater heights. There would not have been\nthe giant Alibaba Group had Jack Ma, the tycoon, not been rejected in thirty\njob interviews before he thought of going for entrepreneurship. Every failure\nspeaks. Every failure tries to convey a message and the one who is capable of\nkeeping his eyes and ears open to it can give a better direction to his life.\nOnly accepting failure and learning to cope with it will do no good if it is\nnot followed by a detailed analysis of the mistakes responsible for it and an\nappropriate understanding of what went wrong. After being burned down to ashes\nin World War II in 1945, Japan, a country so small in size and so pathetically\nstarving of natural resources, could make it to one of the world\u2019s biggest\neconomies. As Henry Ford had aptly stated, \u201cFailure is simply the opportunity\nto begin again, this time more intelligently\u201d, it must be understood that\nbehind every failure there is a reason, an action which was not in sync with\nthe target that had been set to achieve. The outcome must always be compared  to what was anticipated and the deviations,\nif any, must be carefully studied. The focus should always be placed on finding\nthe causes of the deviations. One should strive to track down all such reasons\nwhich made the undesirable happen and bear in mind, that these should not be\nrepeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes,\nunrealistic goal-setting might also be the reason behind a failure. Lack of\nproper understanding of one\u2019s own potential overlays the way for setting goals\nthat are too difficult for one to achieve within the specified time. Unrealistic\ngoals are also an outcome of comparison with other people\u2019s achievements\nwithout making sure whether their potential and circumstances are the same as\nthat of ours. This calls for re-envisioning the goals whereby the re-defined\ntargets are in line with our own capabilities taking into account a specified\nperiod of time and under the given circumstances. Failures make us work on our\nrisk-taking and time managerial skills as well. These facilitate proper\nplanning of the course of action to be carried out. Besides this, attaining\nemotional stability is another boon of failure. Anyone who learns and betters\nhimself with every setback becomes so valiant and fearless that he is able to\nsee and rise beyond such fear. He is someone who learns not to give up no\nmatter how difficult the situation might be and is ever prepared to face any\nstorm that comes his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly,\nto be able to see the silver lining behind a defeat, one must always have the\nright attitude to learn and grow. Success is not the destination, it is only a\nby-product. One must be determined to strike while the iron is hot. Failing to\nachieve the target is not the real failure, surrendering ourselves to the grasp\nof destiny and luck is. Considering our results as the luck of the draw and worrying\nabout what others will say if we fail are the shortest routes to failure.\nProfound self-belief and abundant faith in oneself drive one to success.\nDestiny is a matter of choice; we can create our own destiny by adding the\nright dose of positive thoughts and vibrations to our efforts. Such\never-flowing positivity was the biggest asset of people like Napoleon Bonaparte\nor Mahatma Gandhi who had the courage to script their own destiny. Swami\nVivekananda beautifully explained, \u201cNever mind these failures, these little\nback slidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand\ntimes make the attempt once more.\u201d In a nutshell, great people had great\nfailures and every failure added an extra ounce of greatness to their\npersonality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crawling, trembling as a baby learns to walk, For every time it falls, for every time it stumbles, It learns to put forth a step firmer; From playing hide-and-seek to playing blind man\u2019s buff, With every wounded elbow, with every bleeding knee, The child unfolds ways to play it better. We grow up hearing age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.competitionreview.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}