#05 - The Underlying Truth About Failure

Okay, consider you've written a test and you failed. So you now decided to just sit there at some random place, full to the brim with nothing but hopelessness. Thinking about gazillions of reasons why you did fail or probably blaming yourself for failing.

You now get lost in your thoughts, then you unknowingly walk down that narrow path where you lose your spark—that sense of purpose in your life. Alas, you now see yourself as the perfect definition of failure. To you, the worst thing in life has befallen you.

However, that's not true. Because over the years, I have come to understand that even though failure is a bitch that drags us into a pit of doubt and despair, there are still thousands of reasons to believe failure teaches success.

So how does failure teach success?

America's brilliant inventor Thomas Edison made so many attempts to create the electric light bulb but all proved to be a failure. The only time he got it right was the 1000th time. Despite all setbacks, he was so persistent. He didn't give up. He kept tapping lessons and continued modifying his research from the challenges which he encountered. And then at the last hour, he finally invented the electric light bulb.

So with this in mind, there is absolutely no reason to lose hope if you attempt doing a particular thing and you don't get it right as you had expected. Obviously, even the great inventions we use today were/are created by people who failed maybe a countless times—the interesting point is they never relinquished their efforts.

Even the human brain supports learning from mistakes and/or failures. Because the brain rewires itself when exposed to various challenges: in such a way that it becomes more resilient and determined when executing or carrying out tasks it is familiar with.

Put differently, your brain learns from the downsides you experience in your day-to-day activities. However, this can only be possible if you develop the right mindset towards failure.

As the case may be, If you continue to see failure as a demon that scares the daylights out of you, then you will absolutely continue repeating same mistakes and you’ll end up moving in a retrogressive order—in which you’ll end up becoming uninterested and then you will probably give up and quit trying.

But this doesn't need to happen. There is no reason to relent or give up, just keep trying. You will eventually get it right someday as long as you are moving along the right track.

All you have to do is to believe in yourself and put your trust in God.