{"id":750,"date":"2013-03-05T22:39:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/?p=750"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:39:29","slug":"failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it appears negative to be talking about failure but let\u2019s look at it from the perspective of how we can overcome failure.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to deal with four types of failure, even though there are others:<\/p>\n

1) Failure by omission. This is fear of doing something because we are afraid. Hence by not acting we\u00a0are failing to do what is right. There is a lot of stigma attached to failure that stops many people\u00a0from taking chances and being outside their comfort zone. These are the people condemned to\u00a0being mediocre.<\/p>\n

2) Failure by refusal. There are those people who never take responsibility and always blame\u00a0someone or something else for their inadequacies. They are the victims who never had a chance.\u00a0Did they have a plan, or a plan B? It doesn\u2019t matter, since they will always find ways to point the\u00a0finger and hence never learn.\u00a0There is a sub-group who try to dress up a failure as a success. Particularly prominent are politicians\u00a0who use spin doctors to try to convince us that they are doing better than their predecessors etc.\u00a0They are people who lie to themselves, and in some cases to others.<\/p>\n

3) Failure by success. This sounds rather twisted\u2026 what I mean is setting goals that are too low, hence\u00a0people may think they have succeeded but they have not stretched themselves. They have not\u00a0achieved their full potential and are wasting their talents and skills by under achieving.\u00a0They may think they are successful, but since they don\u2019t set Big Hairy Audacious Goals they never\u00a0really succeed\u2026<\/p>\n

4) Failure by action. People who give it their very best shot, it doesn\u2019t work so they try a different\u00a0approach. They learn from their mistakes and figure out ways to avoid making them again.\u00a0It could be they had a poor perception of the situation. They gain experience and pick themselves\u00a0up again however many times needed.<\/p>\n

\"failure\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When you are trying to achieve a goal it can be quicker to learn from other peoples mistakes. Like this you\u00a0don\u2019t repeat them.
\nHowever circumstances are never quite the same and you are not \u2018other people\u2019. You think and feel in a\u00a0unique way\u2026 Besides you need to feel the pain of doing something wrong to really learn the lesson.\u00a0It is like a child who has to get burnt before really learning not to touch something hot!<\/p>\n

So only the 4th type is healthy, since it makes the person progress and get better.<\/p>\n

And remember you will never be a failure until you give up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know it appears negative to be talking about failure but let\u2019s look at it from the perspective of how we can overcome failure. I\u2019m going to deal with four types of failure, even though there are others: 1) Failure by omission. This is fear of doing something because we are afraid. Hence by not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.success-academy.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}