I believe that we look at failures as not achieving an expected result by a given deadline. But what if we expected an unreasonable result or the deadline was too short? What if we failed at something that is not important to us? What if we stopped trying just because we have realised that it’s not really what we want to do? Is there anything wrong with changing our mind about what we want in our life? Is it still a failure?
We might all agree that if someone succeeds at something, most of the people don’t care about their previous failed efforts or that they failed at other things not related to their success.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
So how do we try again something that we could not previously do and we still wish to be able to do? We could try it under different circumstances, focusing on small steps towards our goal (see Progress) and not to set a deadline.
There is a large number of different ways that we can try to do one thing; there are very high odds that one of them will work. All we need to do is to keep trying different ways to get it (see Learning) and make sure that we are trying to do something that we genuinely want so we keep our motivation.
