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Published on: Apr 11, 2008

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There is too much in writing and in speech about success, how to succeed, 100 ways to success, success this, success that. But what about failure, for I know that most people are friends more with failure than with success; yet they do not know failure well enough to avoid it. I want to talk about failure, the golden rules to being a failure, and how it comes about. I believe that when you know what can make you a failure, then you might be able to mitigate being one.

To start with, failure is not the opposite of success, so when you fail, the least you should say is ‘I am not successful’. Just because you have failed does not imply that you are a failure. Failing is necessary to enable you work toward your success. But the problem is we take failure to be a hit against us succeeding. We take an example of Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb who couldn’t say he failed 1,000 times but said that “the light bulb was an invention of 1,000 steps”

(http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/OnFailing.html) Here is a man who according to common sense failed 1,000 times, but to him those a thousand attempts were a step in line of success. Remember success is not a destination that we want to reach, for we can never get there. Success is a journey and on this journey there are stops of failure and perseverance. Both are on the same road, more like on a continuum.

Again to fail is one thing, to be a failure is another. The sooner you realize this truth the better. Some people fail and remain down to attract public sympathy; others fail and rise to try again. It is up to you once you fail whether you will rise and move on or remain and be a failure. It is way too easy to be a failure! A person who tries every time and still fails is not a failure, but one who succeeds a hundredth time, fails once and does not try one, to me he is a failure indeed.

A good example I would give is about love. Doesn’t it surprise you that your heart might have been broken so many times by someone you loved, yet you find yourself loving again? Sometimes some people fail not because they attempted but because they were afraid of failure and didn’t even try. I don’t want to be a failure, but if you want to fail, the following are what I call the 3 golden rules to Failure:

1. If you want to fail, spend more time sleeping. Some people sleep longer hours than they spend to work; all in the name of resting. Resting when you are not tired is a good recipe for failure

2. Compare yourselves with those not better than you. When you begin to justify your setbacks based on those who haven’t done better than you, then you might be lucky and become a failure. For instance, after failing an exam, or a job interview, you might be tempted to say, “am even better, you should have seen how worse others failed”.

3. Dream, dream and dream do not act! One shortcut to failure is you keeping on dreaming and not acting upon your dreams.

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by Remish Gasiano
Published on: Apr 11, 2008
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Type: Opinions
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=19807


There is too much in writing and in speech about success, how to succeed, 100 ways to success, success this, success that. But what about failure, for I know that most people are friends more with failure than with success; yet they do not know failure well enough to avoid it. I want to talk about failure, the golden rules to being a failure, and how it comes about. I believe that when you know what can make you a failure, then you might be able to mitigate being one. To start with, failure is not the opposite of success, so when you fail, the least you should say is ‘I am not successful’. Just because you have failed does not imply that you are a failure. Failing is necessary to enable you work toward your success. But the problem is we take failure to be a hit against us succeeding. We take an example of Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb who couldn’t say he failed 1,000 times but said that “the light bulb was an invention of 1,000 steps” (http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/OnFailing.html) Here is a man who according to common sense failed 1,000 times, but to him those a thousand attempts were a step in line of success. Remember success is not a destination that we want to reach, for we can never get there. Success is a journey and on this journey there are stops of failure and perseverance. Both are on the same road, more like on a continuum. Again to fail is one thing, to be a failure is another. The sooner you realize this truth the better. Some people fail and remain down to attract public sympathy; others fail and rise to try again. It is up to you once you fail whether you will rise and move on or remain and be a failure. It is way too easy to be a failure! A person who tries every time and still fails is not a failure, but one who succeeds a hundredth time, fails once and does not try one, to me he is a failure indeed. A good example I would give is about love. Doesn’t it surprise you that your heart might have been broken so many times by someone you loved, yet you find yourself loving again? Sometimes some people fail not because they attempted but because they were afraid of failure and didn’t even try. I don’t want to be a failure, but if you want to fail, the following are what I call the 3 golden rules to Failure: 1. If you want to fail, spend more time sleeping. Some people sleep longer hours than they spend to work; all in the name of resting. Resting when you are not tired is a good recipe for failure 2. Compare yourselves with those not better than you. When you begin to justify your setbacks based on those who haven’t done better than you, then you might be lucky and become a failure. For instance, after failing an exam, or a job interview, you might be tempted to say, “am even better, you should have seen how worse others failed”. 3. Dream, dream and dream do not act! One shortcut to failure is you keeping on dreaming and not acting upon your dreams. « return.