Embracing Failure

When I conduct a training session, I always make it a point to talk about my failures. We fail not once but many times in our attempts at being successful.

Even today I fail.

Repeated failures though disheartening at first have a positive side to them. You get to know the mistakes you have committed and will never repeat them. Secondly, every failure strengthens your resolve to succeed. Nobody is infallible. What we fail to notice is - that success that comes to you after a protracted struggle is sweet and more than compensates for the string of losses you have suffered along the way.

Just out of college, I remember my first job interview. Those times soft skills were alien and I was a nervous wreck unable to answer very basic questions. The environment got the better of me.

One of the factors contributing to failure is - insufficient knowledge. The second is the propensity to throw in the towel without a fight.

Thomas Alva Edison who was credited with the invention of the light bulb failed repeatedly. A thousand attempts later, the “ Wizard of Menlo Park “ developed a prototype for mass production. When asked how it felt to have failed 1000 times, Edison replied;

“I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps".

Failure is nothing but success disguised.

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