Failure Phobia
August 15, 2007 at 4:59 pm | Philosophy | No comment
Failing is good, or at the very least it’s not bad.
People are often scared of trying something new, learning a new skill or changing something in any way in case they or it fails.
Even if it does fail, it’s useful, every failure is an experience, every experience builds you as a person, gives you something to draw on and learn from.
Experience is the key to life, its very meaning if you haven’t experienced anything you can’t say you have lived, and if you’ve never failed then chances are you haven’t experienced very much.
“If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough”.
Failure is a part of life, it’s not the failing that determines whether or not you’re competent or intelligent or made of stern stuff, it’s how you handle it.
If you handle failure by crawling into a corner and sobbing (literally or proverbially) then not only have you failed in the task you were trying to accomplish, you’ve failed to grow from the experience.
There are some people in life that seem naturally gifted at a subject or skill, that never lose a game of chess, or can’t be beaten at golf.
These people are the least experienced of all, it’s only through failing and our acceptence and above all appreciation of our failure that we can grow.
I feel I haven’t expressed myself well in this post, my point is to embrace all situations, be they positive or negative and view them as a good thing.