What is failure? We have always heard that it is very important to learn from failure. Some smarter people learn from not just their own failure, but also from the failures of other people. That said, isn't it also important to understand "What failure is ?" How do we define failure? Whatever success is, as defined by the society if not achieved it leads to failure. Observe, right from childhood it is someone else who has defined both success and failure for us. Failure begins from not getting admission in the number 1 kindergarten. Then the class grades and ranks decide how successful you are. Then a series of predefined races for different things start. No one asks if you want to participate in that race. There is a continuous scoreboard ticking and indicating your success and your failure. After studies, its sports, you should play all of them and win in all of them. Then the music of failure comes if you are not good in art and music classes. Then some uncle will put you in water to succeed in swimming, if you can't swim, you have a chance to sink in failure there too. There's also an opportunity to get a kick of failure by not learning karate or a punch by your inability to be good in boxing. Many times, even the bedtime stories are about successful people. And if you get here a story of someone who has failed, it's only so that you can "learn" a lesson or two from it. No one is interested in giving a thought about your individuality, your uniqueness in life. Why is it required to first play, and then win the race which is set by a society, which itself might be a failed one, as per your measurements... Why is it necessary to mould everyone to "fit-in". Yes, success is defined in such a way that 'fitting-in'' is the only normal thing. There are no incentives for those "standing out". They are rather ridiculed, humiliated and pushed to fit into the mould. In a real sense, failure is thus to get trapped in the definition of "success" defined by others, by society.
There are no incentives for those "standing out". They are rather ridiculed, humiliated and pushed to fit into the mould. In a real sense, failure is thus to get trapped in the definition of "success" defined by others, by society.
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