Failure is uncomfortable, and no person likes failing at a test or a competition or getting rejected. How would that look if failing right now was the best thing that happened to you? To society, failure is the opposite of success, but it is really sort of a needed step to success. It's simple, really: The earlier you fail, the longer you have to learn and be able to course-correct to growth.
Why Failure is a Superpower
Success stories abound, but pre-success failures rarely make headlines. Each time you fail, you build some kind of experience that is necessary for eventual success. These skills include the following:
Resilience: This could be described as the ability to learn to pick one's self up after a fall to take on challenges again.
Self-awareness: In failing, that is an invitation to reflect-to assess what went wrong and where.
Problem Solving & Creativity: When things don't go according to plan, then you find your way out of it. But think about it: if everything just came so easily, then one would have never been pushed beyond thinking differently or harder. It's failure that permits progress to begin with.
Famous Failures: Proof Things Could Always be Worse
Some of the most successful people in history began with failure. Had they allowed those failures to define them, they never would have reached greatness.
Walt Disney – Got fired from a newspaper job because he "lacked imagination." Later went bankrupt before creating Disneyland.
Oprah Winfrey – Told she wasn't "fit for television" before becoming one of the most influential media personalities in history.
Albert Einstein – Couldn't speak fluently until age 9 and was considered a slow learner. He later revolutionized physics.
These people succeeded not despite their failures but because of them.
Why Failing Young is an Advantage
By failing young, a student does not face catastrophic consequences of failure. The failure to ace a test, not making it into a team, or messing up a project will not destroy your future; instead, it teaches you how to handle setbacks while the stakes are low. If you learn how to recover from failure early, you'll be much stronger when facing bigger challenges later in life.
Failed a test? Learn to study more effectively.
Lost a competition? Go over what went wrong; try harder next time.
Rejected from an opportunity? Improve your skills and try again.
Every failure is a lesson in disguise-but only if you take the time to learn from it.
Turning Failure into Growth
So, how do you make failure work for, not against, you?
Reframe Failure as Feedback: Instead of looking at failure as some sort of ending, it really is a signal that an adjustment needs to be made.
Don't Let Fear Hold You Back: A lot of people don't try new things because they're afraid of failing. But by not failing, one won't grow either.
Keep Going: The only real failure is quitting too soon. Each mistake you make gets you closer to success.
Conclusion: It's Better to Fail Now
The fact that you are failing just means that you're trying. Some of the most successful people in this world never dodged failure; rather, they chose to embrace failure. Fail early, fail more often, and, more importantly, fail forward.
Written By;
Vibhas Tallapalli
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