Why You Need To Fail
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Failure means progression. We can only progress when we learn from failure. Can we progress if we don't fail? That is an argumentative topic. You can certainly learn and advance when you don't fail at anything. However, making a mistake or error then seeing the error in your ways and formulating a solution or better way of doing things is certainly a novel way of learning in leaps and bounds rather than in small hops.
Learning from failure is a concept that has been around forever. Read any old (or current) self help book, and there will surely be a chapter in there on failure and how you can benefit from failure. No one wants to fail, and many people see failure as a sign to stop whatever it is they are striving to achieve. In actual fact, failure is the beginning of success. One failure means one less failure in the future. Fail now, succeed later. Grow from failure and let success be greater than it would have been had you not failed at your previous attempt.
Everyone fails! It is a fact of life that not a person in the world will go through life without, at some point, failing at at least one thing. Most of us fail at many things every single day without even realizing it! For example, how many times have you taken the wrong turn when driving somewhere? Or forgotten to take your lunch to work? These are small failures, the type that we don't even consider to be failures. After you have taken the wrong turn in your car, do you simply give up and huddle in your car? Or do you turn around and try to find the right turn?
Failure should be no different in the bigger things in life either. If you make a wrong turn, find another way! It's likely that your new way may be an even better way. That is how we grow and advance in anything we do.
If your failures are connected to your line of work, career or life goals, it can do you well to write them down. Think about all your past failures (or what you consider to be failures) and list them on paper. Also make another column next to them and write what you did to counteract these failures. How did you bounce back? You may be surprised at the turn your life has taken due to these failures. It is possible that just one or two small failures in life have led you to where you are now. If it weren't for these failed attempts, you would have not progressed.
The greatest example of failure is of course Edison and his light bulb. He failed 10,000 times before he succeeded. He didn't give up! Imagine if he had given up, someone else would have come along and stolen his glory and know one would know who Edison is. That is the sort of persistence that is required to succeed. Fortunately, not many of us will fail 10,000 times, but much less.
I'd like to share some inspirational quotes about failure with you. These quotes inspire you to believe that failure is a blessing and not a curse.
"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure." - Hill
"Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." - Hill
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."- Edwin H. Land
"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." - Anne Sullivan
Failure happens naturally. Don’t try and make yourself fail simple because you think it will help you grow. It is only through unintentional failure that good things will come.