Learn from your Failure

I still remember that moment in my life. It was in the mid of summer, I sat frustrated in one end of the room with my head warped down. The failure I faced in the football match for which we practiced furiously for the past two months made me completely ruined. I completely lost my hope. Not only me, but our entire team also lost our hope. We, as a team has been a failure on the entire seasonal league. We tried in every possible aspect in order to overcome our failure. But we couldn’t find where we have been blundering ourselves.

‘Why do we fall Bruce? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.’

The television on the other end of the room muttered playing the ‘Batman Begins’ movie. That exact point was the spark we have been missing in the entire period of time. We trained ourselves hard, we were united, and also we strategized our plans well. But still what we missed was to learn from failure. Our fear of failure to lose was blocking us from exhibiting our potentiality according to our game plan.

The ability to learn from failure is more important since we have less time on this Earth. We can’t set ourselves in a loop, failing in the same stuff we have failed before. At least we have to fail better than before.

As Samuel Beckett says,

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. But fail better.”

But how to learn from failure? How to overcome fear of failure?

We started to utilize our negative impacts which we faced during the entire season. We started to train ourselves with a positive vibe (a positive vibe that we don’t have to face any more criticisms since we secured the first place from the last in the points table.) We were infamous for our failures. But what if we win a game? What if we raise ourselves up in the points table?

But on the other hand, we had no time for it. It was already too late for us to gain our position in the playoffs. If we beat the top two teams in the upcoming matches, it would be possible for us to overcome those criticisms we faced on daily basis, to reveal our true game that we insisted to play every time we failed in expressing it.

As usual, the first two teams on the points table were of experienced teams with great players. We didn’t have any idea about how to overcome their game plans. But we were also not ready to lose our hope. And that’s where our coach played a major part in our game. He repeated the words of Warren Buffet,

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.”

We started to track both the teams game plans through which they failed to beat their opponents. And also we tracked their key factors through which they were able to beat their opponents. The rest of the days we kept practicing with all our determination with only one motto in our mind, to divert our criticisms against us.

And of course, we achieved what we were determined for. The first two teams in the point tables – who were named as the giants of our game – were easily triumphed by our team which was in the last place. Of course, it’s our determination and perseverance towards what we wished to accomplish was the steps to our success. But the underlying reason which we focused was to learn from failure. 

Failure is the stepping stones for success. Learn how to overcome fear of failure and develop the ability to learn from failure.

About the Author:

Shripathy Swaminathan is a passionate writer and an aspiring author from the Manchester city of India. Graduating in the field of engineering, he started his quest to find the writer in himself in order to inspire people by his thoughts.

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