Failure is life’s great teacher; it’s nature’s chisel that chips away at all the excess, stripping down egos as it molds and shapes us through divine intentions. Without failure, we’d be less capable of compassion, empathy, kindness, and great achievement; we would be less likely to reach for the moon and the stars. It’s through failure that we learn the greatest lessons that life could teach us.
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
Experience
The first important lesson gained from failure is experience.
The experience of failing at something is truly invaluable. It completely alters our frame-of-mind through the induction of pain. It makes us reflect on the real nature of things and their importance in our lives, transforming and improving our future-selves.
Knowledge
Failure brings with it important firsthand knowledge. That knowledge can be harnessed in the future to overcome that very failure that inflicted so much pain in the first place. Nothing can replace the knowledge gained from failure.
When Thomas Edison famously failed nearly 10,000 times to create a commercially viable electric light bulb, with each failure, he gained the knowledge of just one more avenue that didn’t work. It was the accumulated knowledge developed from nearly 10,000 failed attempts that ultimately led to his success.
Resilience
Failing in life helps to build resilience. The more we fail, the more resilient we become. In order to achieve great success, we must know resilience.
Growth
When we fail, we grow and mature as human beings. We reach deeper meanings and understandings about our lives and why we’re doing the things that we’re doing. This helps us to reflect and grow as individuals.
Bill Gates famously quoted “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” which is something we all need to understand about life.
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
Experience
The first important lesson gained from failure is experience.
The experience of failing at something is truly invaluable. It completely alters our frame-of-mind through the induction of pain. It makes us reflect on the real nature of things and their importance in our lives, transforming and improving our future-selves.
Knowledge
Failure brings with it important firsthand knowledge. That knowledge can be harnessed in the future to overcome that very failure that inflicted so much pain in the first place. Nothing can replace the knowledge gained from failure.
When Thomas Edison famously failed nearly 10,000 times to create a commercially viable electric light bulb, with each failure, he gained the knowledge of just one more avenue that didn’t work. It was the accumulated knowledge developed from nearly 10,000 failed attempts that ultimately led to his success.
Resilience
Failing in life helps to build resilience. The more we fail, the more resilient we become. In order to achieve great success, we must know resilience.
Growth
When we fail, we grow and mature as human beings. We reach deeper meanings and understandings about our lives and why we’re doing the things that we’re doing. This helps us to reflect and grow as individuals.
Bill Gates famously quoted “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” which is something we all need to understand about life.
Like some old saying goes – Success comes from good decisions, good decisions come from experiences and experiences come from failures/bad decisions. The fact is you can be successful only if you learn to embrace your failures and treat yourself with as much dignity as when you succeed in something.
Failing is natural and the only thing to do when you fail is to learn from the experience.
To face failures with dignity, you need to become extremely self confident and also courageous.
Try to accept these failures as lessons you would have never learnt otherwise. Facing failures should be thought of as a process of learning from the best teacher in the world.
If you read personal experiences and stories of the greatest minds in the world, you will get to understand how much failures are important in life to succeed.
So never afraid to fail more, learn more from your experience and become truly successful.
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