Embracing failures - Section 1
With the ever increasing need to compete and win at this present social environment, it has now become vital for everyone to develop tools to handle things when it does not turn out the way it was expected to be. We often set out to win on all the ventures that we choose to work on, however a pinch of reality is that there are others who would aim for it too. This leads to competition, a situation where more than one person decide to strive or work for a single common target. The beauty of a competition is that the whole standard of the target is raised with every inch of extra effort that the competitors put in, but it is also vital to understand all the competitors cannot be winners. While it is important to give our best, it is as so important for us to embrace failures. It is often widely misunderstood that embracing failures mean being happy with the state of failure which is not the right message the term tries to convey. Embracing failure is to allow ourselves to acknowledge and accept that there has been a failure and to start working on fixing the issues that had happened.
Mastery at anything is attained through ample failures leading to as many learnings, which is why being happy with failure would not be the right way to go. The ask here when said ‘Embracing Failure’ means to be able to not lose hope at what went wrong instead to try and do it better the next time. Embracing failures would lay the very foundation to perseverance. With the current day and age where the youth have access to the internet and global social media, one thing that has spread across is to keep winning at everything we do. We are not meant to win always. Given a situation to hire, we are meeting two people where first the candidate is perfect for the job with multiple success stories, promotions and laurels. The second candidate shows great wisdom however his profile shows not too many great laurels and when asked he would acknowledge there has been various failures that he had to endure in his career. Now, the safer option at the outset would look like the first candidate and off-course he can provide good results for us when everything works in our favour. But when there is a first failure due to unavoidable reasons at work, there could be chaos. However, selecting the second candidate might not sound the best at the beginning but with so many failures behind he is now set to make a mark of success and to take past failure driven calculated efforts to be sure we are better prepared for a multidimensional result. On a long term, the second candidate would bring out more great things to us.
When it comes to parents, it is highly effective to start speaking to kids about handling failures on different parts of life from being rejected for a job to failing a decider test. Again. Embracing failure is not about getting comfy at failure but to get back on feet with very least energy spent. Time to get back on our feet and be better.
Kishore Kumar M
