Is failure a bad thing?
By septemberxue
@septemberxue (138)
China
December 29, 2008 12:09pm CST
failure is common in our lives.now we are living in a complex and competitive society in which there are many things we can't be sure of.if we explore a new field that no one else has ever entered ,or if we don't make enough preparations before we perform a task,most probably we will have to face failure.
different people take different attitudes towards failure.some lose hearts and think the world is at its end,some try to find excuses and are indifferent to the consequences while some others learn much from there failures and therefore see the light of hope through failures .
i think what really matters is not failure itself but how we apprough it.as long as we don't give up but belive in ourselves ,and in the meantime draw a lesson from failure ,we will certainly succeed in the end .so i am never afraid of failure ,for i belive "failure is the mother of success"
what is your opinion?
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19 responses
@xtian04 (282)
• Philippines
29 Dec 08
As you have said, failure is a normal thing, it can be bad and it can be good depending on the way you perceive it. it's a bad thing when you fail because you did not prepare or you did not exert efforts into achieving something but in a way, it can always be a good thing because everytime we fail, we learn lessons, we see the things that we need to work on. maybe it becomes bad when we continue failing on the same thing beacause we didn't learn from our previous mistakes. :P
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
29 Dec 08
I don't think failure is a bad thing because we learn from our mistakes, if we didn't make them, what would we have to learn?
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@sweetmimzim3 (261)
• United States
29 Dec 08
You are never a failure if you've tried you very best and didn't hurt anyone along the way. I believe in carma and if good people wait..treat everyone with kindness than good things will come and that is not failure.
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@happyforever (191)
• China
13 Jan 09
I think you have a positive attitude towards life and i believe that you will be successful sooner or later. Just be optimistic and learn from failure. It's enough
@sreejithsreenivas (10200)
• India
30 Dec 08
I dont think so and failure is not a bad thing.In life sometimes we have to face failure.From mistake only we can learn.If we make any mistake,then at second time we try to not to repeat that same mistake.
@Eswaramoorthy (39)
• India
30 Dec 08
As many peoples know "Failure is the mother of success". From this point of view, failure is not a bad thing. IN my opinion,we should take a active attitude towards failure because it often act as a good teacher. Failure tells us such things that why we failed what what we should to do to correct the mistakes. Of course, its a natural when we meet with failure we should be sad. If we want to succeed, we can do everything to over come the all potential problems. After we experience the failure, one day when our success comes, we are stronger than before both in our ability and in our power. In fact, failure benefits us in many ways. In a word, "Failure is not a bad thing".
@annjilena (5618)
• United States
30 Dec 08
well i believe if one door is close than another will be open so there really is no failure maybe it was meant for you maybe something better is for you .it may seem like failure but actually it only the begining.failure is something we create in our own minds.the mind can be powerful.remember wisdom is power.
@Arolition (51)
• Belgium
30 Dec 08
Failure is not a bad thing. It happens everywhere on earth. No one is perfect. We all make mistakes and from these mistakes we learn how to do something the next time. Making too much failures isn't positive anyway. But when you've done your very best, you can't blame yourself anything.
@aya215 (41)
• Philippines
30 Dec 08
I don't think failure is a bad thing. Nobody is perfect in this world so failure is just an ordinary thing. Also, failure has a big impact in everyone's life. You learn from these failures to succeed in life. It actually serves as a guide to your success. You just have to learn how to deal with it.
@liisafiat (659)
• Latvia
30 Dec 08
It is important to understand how to approach our failures properly.
Some good players fail their reputation simply because they do not know how to fail and welcome their failures.
Am I a good failure approacher? No. Still many things has to be done!
@coolingstar9 (79)
• Singapore
30 Dec 08
Life is full of success and failure. Failure can make us stronger also, we should treat it the learning experience.
Of course we should do our best to have good preparation before we going to unknown place. For example If we want to go oversea do business just say China. We need to have the knowledge of their culture, how their people behave in business deal. We try to minimize the risk of failure.
@pratiksanghvi (1281)
• India
30 Dec 08
no failure is nt a bad thing actually in this world the more mistake u do the more experience u get so the chances of making the same mistake text time decreases so next time u succed actually failure is the key to success dont run away from it u should face it.so next time dont worry just face it u should be brave enough to face it.everythings gonna be alright leave it to the almighty
@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
29 Dec 08
I agree that failure can possible be the mother of success because when you keep on trying at something there is always that small chance you could succeed. There are many famous people out there that have failed at one time or another and because they didn't cease trying they became great inventors.
@har360 (95)
• Indonesia
30 Dec 08
Everyone, don't like failure, is a sad story, but some people take the failure as a part of they success, like albert einstein, he do a lot of testing his project, and all of his work is payoff. The point is always move on, and if found the failure, try another way, and if we have the passion on anything that we plan on, it near of success, look failure as your part of success, it's hard to get something that we want without the failure in the middle of process, just like riding the bicycle, when we do the first riding the bicycle, is much of fall we make, but when we try it and kept try it, the less we fall, so practice make perfect.
@numberonechick (139)
• Singapore
30 Dec 08
It's because of failure, a person becomes strong, not wanting to give up and keep on trying. It's when they make mistakes when the person get to learn. When one doesn't fail in anything, you just don't learn anything.
A failure has been an opening eye to me. I do wish I studied hard years back since I can't go back, I made sure I do not repeat the same mistakes. This time round, I have been studying hard(and smart) and really aim for my goal. I am glad that I had such a failure at an early part of my life as I learn something good from it.
@vinaymehra (8)
• India
30 Dec 08
Life is not a bed of roses. It is full of miseries and struggles.Failure and success
are two facets of life.So one should not be dejected by failure because failures are pillars to success.No one can gain success without perseverance but he has to face failures in course of achieving success.Footnotes of great persons show us that success cannot be achieved in a day. It is a long term process. In this world everyone is striving hard to be successful. A businessman has to face loses in his business, should he leave his business?No, not at all.He should put his effort again
to stand.Life is not going to deceive you every time. A day comes when you will cross all the barriers and find yourself in the queau of successful persons.
