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Success of Failure

There are many books in the market today that talk about success but little has been written on the subject of failure. I guess the reason why it has not been widely touched on is that our society has been programmed to shun failures. We look down on people who failed. Falling is considered taboo. We measure people by their achievements. We put a high value on "success" but little or no value on "failure". Is there little or no value in falling? If that is so, why is it that all lives of great men - the tougher the failures they suffered, the greater they finally became? Great failures actually made great men! There are very few if any, great men who had not gone through hardship and failures in their lives.

Winning has been over glorified and we forget that it is through learning from and losing that we become greater winners! Glorifying winning or success alone is very dangerous because many who have tried and failed feel so bad about failing that they succumb to failure and never rise again.

The common misconceptions of success and failure are If you have obtained lump of gold, you are success. If not, you are a failure.
If you obtain a paper degree, you are a success. If not, you a failure.
If you close the deal, you are a success. If you dont, you are a failure.
If you don't get the job, you are a success. If not, you are a failure.
If you manage to get the girl, you are a success. If not, you are a failure.


" Give me 10 losers who understand what losing means and I'll give you 10 great winners!"

Some have defined "success" as a day-to-day progressive journey towards a per-determined worthwhile goal. The failure part of the journey. Is it really bad? In our journey through life, we have always associated sunshine as good - success, and rain as bad - failure. Most of us don't like the rain. We would prefer the sunshine. We would prefer the good times than the bad. But are the good times really that nice? Are hard times to be dreaded?

"Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of goods weather." "Sometimes good always comes from something bad." Failure is not bad after all!

Failing is a part of process of growth. There nothing to fear however because it is all part growth and evolution. Remember, a snake cannot grow if its old skin is not cast off. Not only green traffics lights are good. We need red lights, too . We need red lights for us to stop. And look and go!