As a life coach, a writer, and motivational speaker, I share a great deal about success, its benefits, and how to achieve it. Nevertheless, in this article, instead of discussing success or giving strategies to cope with failure, I want to emphasize the rewards that failure holds, despite the negative emotions it produces.
Self-confidence
To harness the benefits of failure, we must begin by appropriately defining it. Amongst all the definitions I found, the quote by Henry Ford: “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently,” seems to be failure’s most descriptive conceptualization. If we don’t whine and complain when we fail, but find ways around setbacks, we will always emerge better and stronger, hence more self-confident.
Creativity
One of the worst enemies to learning is a complacent mentality. Failure is usually a sign that an old method no longer works. Therefore, failure compels us to let go of our logarithmic thinking, which is the reliance on well-worn, familiar techniques to use heuristics (exploring new ways), which will strengthen our creativity muscles.
Humility
Imagine a world where everyone succeeded, every time, in everything they undertook. Not only would life be boring, arrogance would prevail. As we climb the ladder of success, failure can teach us to stay grounded and be humble. Socrates once said: “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
Ponder on this quote, study it, and commit it to memory until it becomes a part of yourself like your name. May your failures and Socrates’ words remind you that despite all your achievements, you are still a work in progress.
Resilience
We are all equipped with the power to bounce back from adversity. That latent potential can only be activated through repeated failures. Next time you fail, remember that you are not the only one. Champions fail, too. Your idols have most certainly failed, despite what you see. These folks have just developed the uncanny ability to heal quickly after a defeat. Process your emotions rapidly and get back into the game. Just as with any skill, mastery comes with consistent practice.
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When faced with difficulties, we can either withdraw and expect them to go away, or we can develop the acumen to overcome them. Here, you are learning the valuable lessons that failures either make or break you. The important part of this statement is that you get to choose.
That’s one amazing image you use to illustrate your post 🙌
Thank you Helena 🙂
Love this post and how you explain the upside of failure. I like to think failure is a learning process. As long as we learn something and keep trying its not really failure at all. Thanks.
Absolutely! I totally agree with you Roze. If we are open to learn from failure then we can harness its power.
I believe you have said these things as well as they could have been spoken (rather, typed) :). So good in fact with your way of words, we’re nearly inspired to fail just to see what is the very best we can be… haha
😂. Hopefully we don’t need to go out and chase failure it will definitely happen. Knowing that there are lessons we can learn from it make it easier to digest.
No, no… 🙂 that thing has picked up my scent & chases me once in a while.
Yes, that can be a helpful way to look at it.
Yes it indeed can be a helpful way to look at it. Thank you for stopping by.
I think failing is the only to succeed. It is arrogant to believe we can get it right from the moment we begin a venture. Failing is the educator who helps us onto the right path. What we can do is mitigate the level of failure by our ability to be open to learning there are other ways.
Thank for the reminder. .
Couldn’t agree more Amorina. We should acknowledge failure and be open to the lessons it teaches us.
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Great points! But sometimes failure breaks us very hard. Well shared👍
Yes true! It’s all easier written than done, but we must be open to learning regardless. Thank you for commenting.
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An important reminder to all of us! If only we would remember… nice post!
You are right! It’s not something we can easily remember when we get knocked down. Hopefully, this post will always be here.