Choosing to Endure instead of Failure

“A lot of people still think of failure as a sign of personal incompetence and try to avoid it at all cost,” said Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Wrike, a software firm in Mountain View, California. “But when you view building a business as a series of experiments, you start to see failure as an inevitable step in the process.” (By Sarah Cruddas “The Hidden Psychology of Failures” 24 March 2016) 

If such is true for the business world, can we hold the same truth for academia? I suggest it depends on how you view failure.  If you are experiencing failing grades in your classes to the point of feeling defeated and hopelessness, your prospective may need changing. To change your prospective, you must view failing grades differently. 

For instance, the first glance at this picture, one may see two horses competing on the beach, but from a different prospective, you may see only one horse fighting self. Failing is similarly if you analyze the effects of failings. Does failing influence your external environment or does it influence how you compete against self?  In other words, are you concerned about how others feel about you or are you focused totally on self-determination?  

If you change your focus toward self-determination, one’s failing will move you toward different techniques by exploring other means to acquire success just like the business industry. Failing in the business world causes different techniques for the industry to explore other means to create sales, etc. Even Apple with Steve Jobs experienced various failures trying to create the iPod. So I encourage you to take the business approach, and endure your failures by creating better means of preparing for classes to acquire success. If others can succeed, so can you!  Tell yourself after the failure - What's Next!

   
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