View Failure from a different angle

You’ve just encountered failure for the first time? Since forever? Or many time over and over again? Well, you’re not alone and you’re not the only person who has ever failed before in the history of mankind. Lots of high achiever and successful individuals have failed harder than we could imagine and probably many times than we ever try. The great one isn’t the one who try and win for the first time, but the one who failed countless times but refuse to live in a regret of not trying hard enough, the one who stop at nothing until they get what they want despite extreme hardship.

This one might be a little bit of a cliché but it’s worth mentioning. Elon Musk and his rocket business. His rockets blew up 3 times in a row causing him millions of dollars, at this point, the majority of people would have packed it up and quit with the rest of the money. But not Elon, he knew that if the fourth one isn’t succeed, he’s going bankrupt for sure and his efforts worth nothing, but he chose to launch it anyway and somehow it succeeded as we know it resulting him receiving 1 billion dollars contract from NASA, and now he’s the richest man in the world. He said “I will never give up, I’d be either dead or completely incapacitated”. This man is the embodiment of the word die trying rather than being average.

You don’t have to build a rocket business or going to space to build a success story for yourself. We all have our own path and each path worth differently to each one of us. What matters is that we stick to our path, our plan and believe in ourselves that every failures is a stepping stone to something greater. Remember that the moment you fail, not because you’re a failure but because there’s something you haven’t done it right yet, because you don’t have enough resources or leverages, or maybe because you lack experiences or expertise. Whatever that is, you need to find it immediately after you fail, that’s the spirit of the successful one. You don’t cry when you fail, you find the root cause of your failure and come back stronger.

Things don’t just go the way we always wanted. Mistakes or some fails along the way are inevitable. Maybe you view the word successful by the one who always win, but I’m here to tell you the otherwise. Winner doesn’t always win, they’re defeated at some point and always come back stronger. Getting defeated means you’re playing the real game. Because if you always win, you’re playing a tutorial mode. Tutorial mode is sweet and easy, but that’s not the point of having the game in the first place.

The loser getting defeated and give up forever, the winner always come back in spite of the fact that they’re losing again and again. They’re still coming back even thought they know they’ll lose again because they know one thing very well, if you have to fail 100 times to win, how fast will you want to lose?

From this point onwards, I dare you to try harder, push yourself forwards to your goal every day, do one thing that scares you but also the one that’s stopping you from achieving your goal. Every single day, ask yourself this question, am I proud of what I’m doing now in the next 5 years. If the answer is Yes, then DO IT.

If you call yourself a failure after a few tries and don’t even dare to come back to the stage again, well maybe you’re actually a failure because that’s what they do.