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31 Mar, 2018

Learning From Failures

Life is full of ups and downs. With success, comes failures. From meaningless mistakes to catastrophic error, experiencing failures is an unavoidable fact of life. What important is the ability to bounce back from it and to learn from those mistakes so that you can grow as a better person. It is often hard to do but it is an important process to go through for every individual, especially for those trying to achieve great success. You can read the story of any accomplished individual and you will find countless failures behind their achievements. Here are some ways that can help you learning from failures.

Take risks

First of all, you have to be ready to take risks. Path less traveled will lead you to something truly exciting, and even revolutionary. Tell yourself that mistakes will happen along the way no matter how well you prepared for it and the only thing you can do is to be ready for when it comes. Do not be afraid of failures, embrace it. Learning from failures is how you can learn and be able to do better when the next opportunity arise. However, be careful to not confuse taking risks and being reckless. Being reckless means that there are not much consideration and contemplation behind your action, whereas taking risks imply that you have thought about your action carefully and see that there is great value in it.  

Practice self-assessment

Admitting that you made a mistake can be a hard thing to do. Not to mention having to look back on it over and over again to try to figure out what went wrong. But it is an important process to go through to make sure that you do not make the same error again for the second time. Ask yourself; what did you do wrong? How did other people react to it? What was your reasoning at the time for doing it? What was it that you should have done instead? And so on and so forth. As you realize the true reason behind your failure, you will have a point of reference in the future for when a similar situation comes up and this time, you will be ready for it.  

Be patient and try again

Success is built on a mountain of failures. When you first fail, based your next action on what you have learned from those failures and try again. You might be successful or you might stumble again, and that is okay. Keep trying, and make sure that every endeavor is better than the last. If there is one quality that every successful person arguably has, it is tenacity. After all, giving up is something that you can do at any given time. Go as far as you can to achieve your goals, and no matter what happen in the end, know that you have learned many things from that endeavor.

Use it as motivation

Failures often can be frustrating. However, it can also be used as a fuel that motivates you to keep going. Make those failures as the driving force for you to study or train more, so that you can do better next time. Treat every setback as a lesson and do not let it get you down. If others tell you that you are not good enough to do something you want, use their words as a driving force to prove them wrong by achieving your goal.   

Failure bound to happen no matter how much you have prepared or planned beforehand. There are only so many variables that we can control in our life. That is why, instead of fearing it and treating it as something that drags you down, learning from failures will help you build a platform on which you will build your future success upon.