Failure, Feedback, and Success

I hate failing.

Every sane person should hate it.

Failing a test, failing to win that basketball match, failing to make the sushi for dinner look aesthetically pleasant.

With the self-improvement movement lately, I started hearing more about failure being a good thing?

How can it be a good thing when you feel like shit?

Are the self-help gurus lying?

Well, not exactly. Failure is not the problem. However, your mindset surrounding failure, is.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

When you start navigating through the narratives of a failure and a success, you start noticing it’s not all black and white.

Failure and success are not on the opposites of the spectrum, but rather, they share a symbiotic relationship where one feeds the other.

You can look at a failure as a foundational step towards success. There is a high probability you won’t ever be successful without ever failing.

There’s even a correlation: The more failures equals greater chance of success.