Understand Why it is More Important to Fail Sometimes Than to Achieve Instant Success

The gift — and the unique opportunity that failure presents to you.

Everyone has experienced failure on many occasions. Sometimes it happens when you’re certain that you’re going to succeed. While at times it happens simply because you didn’t prepare very well.

But would you have known that you didn’t prepare very well if you had succeeded outrightly? And would you have learned to avoid repeated failures if you hadn’t failed initially?

A few years ago I started a new business that I thought would be a success. But the outcome after a few weeks of commencement sent me reeling. My new business collapsed without making any big impact. I battled with guilt, and regret.

But the truth is that my startup failed because it was designed to fail and not to succeed. I believed I had done my work very well. However, a shocking surprise was lurking around the corner because the wheels of my startup can only spin for a short period of time.

You may fail to fully comprehend the gift that failure presents to you if you use a one-dimensional approach to evaluate your efforts and outcome. And for this reason you might find yourself soaked in a pool of negative emotions for an extended period of time instead of learning from the experience — and begin prepare for your next attempt.

What I did a few days after my newly established business failed was to carefully examine every step I took so that I can ascertain the reasons for the early collapse of my startup.

And doing a thorough review of my performance helped me to unearth my mistakes and the seemingly insignificant, but important factors that could’ve helped me to succeed.

Therefore if you take a stock of your efforts and the undesirable results, you’d realize that failure is a necessary outcome that’ll spur you to begin to make a deliberate effort to improve — and to strive to do your tasks better. Or to work harder to become a better individual.

Failure provokes you to think deeper in order to determine what went wrong

Previously you may quickly assume that your skill level and your knowledge is good enough to yield the desired outcome. You also might erroneously believe that you’ve done all that you were supposed to do. But failure will reveal your mistakes and inadequacies.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas A. Edison

Failure bares your shortcomings and directs you which area to focus on improving before your next attempt. It presents an opportunity to learn how to handle your task in a better way. And to review your tasks thoroughly in order to stand a chance of achieving the desired result.

For example I carefully examined every step that I took after my startup failed. And I did this particularly for two reasons:

• To find out what went wrong in all the steps that I took so that I’ll know how to get it right in my next attempt.
• And to know the steps that I failed to take and to understand why.

If you examine your poor performances very well, you’ll be handed with the knowledge and the understanding on how to do things better — and this will help you to develop and reach that level of competence.

And this is why I believe that it is better to fail at times and learn from the experience than to achieve instant success that won’t be sustainable.

The experience is going to help you to eventually achieve excellence — and to distinguish yourself from the teaming crowd. This is why everyone that is desirous of success would first learn to accept unfavorable results. Because some negative experiences are the building blocks of success.

Nowadays my mindset towards every task is that I mightn’t succeed initially. And with that, every negative experience wouldn’t stagnate me. Rather it’ll push me forward.

Failure is an essential ingredient of success

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston S. Churchill

Failure is the stage you’ll find yourself before getting to where you desire to be. You come closer to success each time you fail because you’re learning some important lessons from the experience — and these lessons are going to come in handy to eventually achieve success.

And this is so because failure helps you to figure out the right way to approach a task. And with this knowledge, you’ll know what to eliminate in a project and what to include in order to optimize your performance and achieve success. Failure deposits the necessary condiments of success into your life. It equips you with important lessons that’d help you to achieve positive results in the long run.

Failure pushes you to work harder

Rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J K Rowling

Failing repeatedly and sometimes losing everything is when you’ll gradually begin to rebuild yourself. Unbeknownst to you, the negative experiences have changed many aspects of you. Your lifestyle, and your work ethic have all changed owing to failures. You’ve learned the right way to go about your tasks. You now possess the right mindset to approach your tasks because failure and negative experiences has helped you to have a better understanding of yourself and life in general.

This is why many folks would later achieve huge success in life after failing massively.

And it’s little wonder that you would rarely see a massive success story that’s devoid of failures, and all manners of life challenges.

And it is the lessons — and the knowledge you gleaned from all the negative experiences that’d serve as a pillar — and a line of defense to your successes and achievements. This is why many people are able to defend the good things they have in their lives because of the lessons they learned from losing the things they once had in life.

Conclusion

Failure is undesirable. It induces negative emotions, nevertheless, you can’t do without it. It’ll always be part of your life because you’ll most likely encounter it first before you succeed at anything in life.

What failure means is that you’re gradually getting closer to achieving success. By revealing your mistakes and areas where you’d need to improve on.

Success could be better managed and sustained by knowing how to consistently take the right actions at the right time. And you can be able to do this effectively because of the lessons that you’d glean from some of your negative experiences in life.

Therefore it is important to be in good terms with failure because it’d help you to understand how to manage your successes and achievements well.