How Failure Can Help You

Contrary to what most people believe, although problems can be tormenting, it is a unique key that opens to greatness. To implement this concept, we must reject the idea that failure or error means that something is wrong.

Failure is just an indicator whether we have achieved our goals or not. In fact, when we ambition to achieve something, we end up making sure that we don’t make any errors along the way. However, there are a lot of times when we do experience failure but this does not mean that you have to drop your ambitions all the same if you experience failure. Sometimes it is a matter of changing the means we have tried to achieve that ambition. Failure can also reveal that we were unwise to evaluate the entire situation. It often happens that one man's failure can be success to others. This means that the parameters of each are different and not the result itself.

Any conclusions we reach about failure is essentially a hypothesis and a reaction to disappointment, fear and despair which are emotions that commonly accompanies failure.

When we experience failure, we must remember that this is a matter of interpretation. Before we can properly interpret the implications of failure, there is an even bigger issue to focus on and that usually goes unnoticed. On what basis do we determine parameters experience a failure? Are we open-minded enough to see the other side of the story and recognize that we also got benefits from it? Have we learned anything?

Thomas Edison said that with each failure, he was very clear on what should be repeated and what not to avoid. So today, a failure to resolve allowed future errors and it also results to problems. Every failure leaves a mark and you can use it to learn something in the future.