UNCERTAINTY | FAILURE | REFLECTIONS
No One Knows Exactly How to Get Back Up From a Failure
Yes, we say to get back up, but how exactly!!
Some people know the secret to getting back up from a failure. You don’t believe?
These two claims show that it’s clear that some people might know the key and secrets of becoming successful and getting back up after a failure.
1. Grant Cordone said he’ll get back up the social ladder if he is broke again today.
2. An argument with a fellow intelligent friend ended with him saying he’d have a first-class again from engineering school if he reobserved his program.
Hold on!
If you started Medium again today, can you become yourself again in the same time frame it took you to get where you are now?
- Wouldn’t you be affected by the algorithm?
- Wouldn’t you be affected positively or negatively by the new group of Medium friends you make?
Success is told, and success is sold. But failure needs to be marketed even more. People need to know how to get back up from failure.
In my defense!
It’s not enough to want to get back up, but also know how to get back up. Especially when you are not Grant Cordone or my brilliant friend.
You can not have the same results if you try the same endeavor in two different ways. I once wrote a high school graduating exam here in Nigeria that equals the GED and I couldn’t get the required grade after three trials.
At the first trial, my dad knew I could do better. He wasn’t bothered. He got me a different personal teacher and I studied hard but failed the second time.
It was my third time and I wasn’t ready to fail again. Aside from motivating myself in all ways possible, I took advice from everyone I knew and the ones who had passed the exam. So I tried immensely and burnt so many night candles.
Before writing the exam, I said, “At this point, Dad, if I fail again, I do not think school is for me.”
I did fail again, but the fourth trial was a charm.
In my fourth trial, I understood that I only had the idea of getting back up from failure, but I didn’t know how to get back up from failure.
As little as I was. A 14-year-old boy with a challenge that wasted three years of his life. I knew that I needed to restrategize.
This was what fueled my writing. I tore a sheet, wrote my mistakes, and studied all past questions. I went to the level of reading the examination’s body rules.
Alas! I found out that I had been making mistakes with my submissions.
Oh Jeez! Just the submission.
At that point, I realized my issue was not knowing how to get up from failure even if I had prayed and studied so hard to muster up the belief that I was getting back up.
I never truly knew how to get back up.
For this reason,
- All you need might be time.
- All you need is to restrategize.
- All you need might be support.
Don’t just hope and try to get back up from a failure. But take some time to brainstorm and evaluate so that you know how exactly to get back up.
Do check out these stories from my good friends here on Medium