Why Is Failure Necessary
Can failure bring success? Is it OK to have failure? Can failure be a good thing? Yes…
Failure is necessary. Don’t think that you can avoid it, almost all successful people have a graveyard of failures behind them. It’s common to “waste” days, weeks, months or even years on something that eventually flops, but you learn something along the way, and that snowballs. Eventually, the snowball is so big that it can force gates to success. Failure is the way forward.
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor”
Mistakes is what builds you
We are afraid to fail, but you should be willing to. Every failure is a step on the stairs that leads to success. Some mistakes will be made along the way and that is the status quo, that is how things work, this is natural and unnatural would be making absolutely no mistakes. Mistakes are inevitable in any journey, and they are not signs of weakness; they are simply the natural bumps along the road, sign of weakness is not learning from them.
The absence of mistakes isn’t a badge of honor, it’s a sign of stagnation. If you don’t get haters, you are doing something wrong. If you succed in everything you do, you are not doing much. The most successful people in any field have a long trail of failures behind them. They have stumbled, they have fallen, but they’ve also learned and adapted. At the end of the day people don’t care about how many times you failed, they care if you will fail now.
You learn best on your own mistakes
Ever given someone a great advice but never life applied it to your own life? Ever known something was wrong, but did it anyway? You learn the most from your own experiences, counterintuitively some people won’t learn if they don’t experience something themselves, but those who can leverage the mistakes of others to avoid doing them themselves will be ahead. I’m not talking about eating asbestos, you don’t need to see someone do it to know it’s rather bad for you. I’m talking falling in love with someone that has more red flags than a Chinese military parade. Do you know it’s bad? Yes. Will that stop you? Most likely not. Will you do it again after learning your lesson? No.
You got many holes, and sometimes need something strong to fill them. In this case, only knowing it’s wrong and you will regret it is like putting cotton wool in it, learning your lesson yourself is like cement.
Can I succeed after failing?
Not only you can, but you are more likely to. Every misstep, every setback, is a valuable lesson learned, a stepping stone on the path to mastery. Successful people aren’t those who avoid failure; they’re the ones who learn from it, adapt, and keep moving forward. The most inspiring stories of success are often full of failures. The worldwide hit series “Squid Game” was rejected countless times before Netflix gave it a chance. Michael Jordan reportedly missed 12,345 shots in his career — but he also made the game-winning ones. Does that make you feel better? It should. Why? You must acknowledge that the place you are in now is temporary, and you don’t see people grinding and failing on your daily doom scroll session, you see the winners celebrating. You see the result, not the path. Process, not event.
