Renewed and effective thinking has made it possible for us to re-evaluate the way we see things. It has led us to seeing the value in challenges, opportunities in difficulties, and the discretion to look inwards in our search for value.
Today, it may not be all about passion or what we are passionate about. It may be more of interest after we have earned initial gains and liquidity through passion. To sustain liquidity, we must be passionate about what is of interest to us.
Failure is not the negative connotation and association that we often equate it with. Failure is a huge value that critical and creative thinking is helping us see in a different way. What exactly is it about failure that is more of fortune than we had previously known? This is what this post is about.
Failure is Treasure
Failure is treasure because through failure, we see what we previously did not see. Tough experiences challenge our thinking to see value where we previously did not. While the majority of us spend time condemning others like governments, parents, teachers and significant others, constant failure has made us look inwards because being left alone to our fate after all seems lost makes us to reach within us for the treasure chest that lays buried within. Without such failure and desertion, we would still clutch to external straws that hold no hope.
Failure is Education
With every failure we learn. We know our initial and previous mistakes. We are better informed. We earn understanding. Understanding is the wisdom earned through doing. If we have not done the same thing repeatedly, we would not have earned for ourselves the know-how. Today, the majority of us have more head knowledge based on the deluge of information available in our space but we hardly earn the true proficiency because we do not apply same. With application we may fail but we become wise through trial and use. This is experiential knowledge.
Failure is Fortune
The fortune of failure is the discipline of personal management because we have been practically informed. Practical information is uncommon fortune. Fortune is wealth beyond the physical. Fortune becomes the life skills that we have acquired through rising and falling. These are the intangible values that are non-negotiable. They endure because they were earned and cannot be taken away from us.
Failure is the Other Side of the Same Coin
Failure is not the opposite of success. Failure partners with success in a queer way that only the wisdom of observation bequeaths to us. As we journey in search of success, we fall many times. If this is not happening, then we are not making any efforts. We are merely sitting still, waiting for Manna to fall from nowhere. The pursuit of success is the process of going through failure to get acquainted with character. We learn to think. We learn discipline. We learn discretion. We learn effective management of wins. On the other side of failure is success; but without failing first, we never get there. This is how to fail forward. The success that truly endures is the one that comes loaded with failure because without it, we hardly earn experience. Where there is lack of experience, there is really no wisdom.
The charge to you therefore is not to quit. You are not to fail or fall out of the way. You are to stay focused on your goal and vision. However, renewed and great thinking lets us know that quitting and knowing when to let go is an even greater fortune.
The idea here is that each person must own their vision and take responsibility for their actions. While the treasure is in your persistence and tenacity, the wisdom to know what to hold on to and for how long is uncommon. It takes the wisdom of the gut to be able to take the best decision regardless of data and analysis.
The value in the efficacy of failure rests in the idea that there is light in the darkness; that there is light at the end of the dark tunnel; and that however dark the horizon is, the sky will become clear again after the cloud, at the end. There is no bad situation that is without good purpose. In every difficult situation, there is a seed of opportunity. Failure does teach success lessons.
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