The Advantages to Failure
Failure: The Modern Interpretation
Failure, what is failure? How do we determine who is achieving to their maximum potential and who is failing? All questions that are not easily answered, due to the inability of creating an efficient nonbiased system of measuring someone’s success/failure. As the Encyclopedia of Britannica would put it, failure is “omission of occurrence or performance and/or a state of inability to perform a normal function.” This definition only satisfies the most basic principles of what it means to fail. As author JK Rowling once stated in her speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure,” failing isn’t necessarily a bad thing and can lead to future opportunity and success. Failure teaches us not only to be humble but how to achieve success later. Failure is the guiding hand of success and without failure we could not learn from our past mistakes and would be doomed to repeat them. If you live your life in fear of failure then you are destined to do nothing due to that fear (Bernard Shaw). Failure is mainly composed of two types of people —those who thought and did nothing, and those who have done, but never thought. The only way to truly find success is to have no fear of failure and to try something regardless of what you think the outcome may be.
Failure is defined literally as omission of occurrence or performance and/or a state of inability to perform a normal function. Society defines it as an unnecessary product of improper practice and dedication to a certain goal or activity. I define failure as a completely necessary
part of everyone’s life that humbles and teaches life lessons that can later prevent future failures. Now I am by no means suggesting that failure should be strived for, but with practice comes failure, which is a key to success. The most notable connotations with failure include laziness, inability to perform, unworthy, and even dead beat. While these may be true for some, I think the overall message that failure
Failure, what is failure? How do we determine who is achieving to their maximum potential and who is failing? All questions that are not easily answered, due to the inability of creating an efficient nonbiased system of measuring someone’s success/failure. As the Encyclopedia of Britannica would put it, failure is “omission of occurrence or performance and/or a state of inability to perform a normal function.” This definition only satisfies the most basic principles of what it means to fail. As author JK Rowling once stated in her speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure,” failing isn’t necessarily a bad thing and can lead to future opportunity and success. Failure teaches us not only to be humble but how to achieve success later. Failure is the guiding hand of success and without failure we could not learn from our past mistakes and would be doomed to repeat them. If you live your life in fear of failure then you are destined to do nothing due to that fear (Bernard Shaw). Failure is mainly composed of two types of people —those who thought and did nothing, and those who have done, but never thought. The only way to truly find success is to have no fear of failure and to try something regardless of what you think the outcome may be.
Failure is defined literally as omission of occurrence or performance and/or a state of inability to perform a normal function. Society defines it as an unnecessary product of improper practice and dedication to a certain goal or activity. I define failure as a completely necessary
part of everyone’s life that humbles and teaches life lessons that can later prevent future failures. Now I am by no means suggesting that failure should be strived for, but with practice comes failure, which is a key to success. The most notable connotations with failure include laziness, inability to perform, unworthy, and even dead beat. While these may be true for some, I think the overall message that failure