Failure Can Be The Best Teacher

In the school , I heard a teacher  saying that the secret to success was by failing. It turns out he was right. I have learned much more from failure than success. 



Bill Gates stated, “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”    


1) Understand and accept failure as a part of life. Successful people says "If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” No matter how hard you may work, failure can happen. One of the largest Web companies in the world states, “If we accept failure as part of life rather than something we try to avoid all the time, it can make a big difference in the way we choose to live our lives.” 

2)Making mistakes is OK,as long as the same one isn’t made twice and you learn from it. Failure shouldn’t be feared, but embraced. “Fail fast” and “embrace failure” are the top buzzwords in Silicon Valley. In fact, there is an annual failure conference there! The goal is for attendees to “study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Failing is part of the learning experience.If you’re not willing to take the risk of failing and not experience failure, you’re never going to figure out what the right path is to success.”  

3)Learn the difference between quitting and failing. Thomas Edison was hearing-impaired, and his teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Imagine if Edison quit working on the light bulb after the first failure. The world would be a different place! After inventing the light bulb, he stated, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” He never quit. He knew that failure was a process and quitting was losing. You can’t succeed at anything if you quit.

Failure is a process and an event toward success. Seeing failure as the end is quitting, but seeing failure as a means to success is “true success.”

-Shreyansh Jain