Re:Stop Fetishizing Failure
by darkarmani on Sunday January 27, 2013 @08:50PM
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> The problem however is way too many people are taking a way too permissive and lax attitude towards failure instead of trying to figure out how to succeed.
Who are these people? I don't know anyone that is happy to fail.
> Remember, people who tell you it is OK to fail are not the ones who will have to live with the consequences of you failing.
I'm not sure if that is true. Plenty of parents are affected if their kids fail at things.
Yes, we can learn from failure and so on, nobody is disputing this. The problem however is way too many people are taking a way too permissive and lax attitude towards failure instead of trying to figure out how to succeed. Permitting yourself to fail is the easy way out to avoid doing lots of hard and gritty work. The best learning happens before you actually fail at something, when you figure out you are ON THE PATH to failure and make a course correction to avoid it.
The overall capital formation ecosystem is probably to blame for this lax attitude. When the financiers make the most return from a few biggest winners taking crazy risks they do not care about mean failure outcome in their portfolio.
Remember, people who tell you it is OK to fail are not the ones who will have to live with the consequences of you failing.