Why can't we value failures for their ability to contribute to our future success?
It seems that you can’t escape the fact that so many of our successes in life are built from our failures. That is, we need experience a few ups and downs to eventually achieve our best outcomes. Therefore, why not value the failures as an essential part of the process of succeeding?
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Most people do – they refer to it as “experience”. Most very experienced people have hit the deck a few times.
Like @DarkScribe said, most people realize that you don’t always succeed on the first try. But we live in a culture of instant gratification, and some people will take a defeatist attitude when things don’t go the way they want it to the first time. They can only see in terms of the short run.
But, if we all took that attitude, think of what commodities we wouldn’t have today. Do you think the computer was built on the first set of blueprints?
Maybe because modern society works upside down.
Therein the perspective you describe lies wisdom.
We are more interested in focusing on bad things. When things go right it is too boring for some.
First when I read the question I thought it refered failures as in persons, which I found refreshing. Since the dawn of time (maybe) we have been thought to re-brand our own mistakes as experience. I think it’s a nice way of looking at life, and find giving losers some slack a refreshing new take on this.
One cheer and a pat on the back for all the losers* out there!!!
* Just to point out that I’m not biased here. I’m not a loser, no siree, I’m a paragon of success (and prosperity), and thus my opinion should be considered 100% objective, valid and true.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~Thomas Edison
Great Question! I feel failure is the motivation for most to strive to achieve. Whether they are aware of the fuel that feeds their passion it is clearly a desire to improve on past attempts.
Every day, I try to fail at least at one thing. Then I know I’ve succeeded.
We can. Learning from our failures is an experience in and of itself.
@Dog lotsa lurve for using my favorite Thomas Edison quote.
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