Stop romanticizing failure. Failing hurts. It's a sharp blow to the gut. It leaves you breathless and whispers in your ear that you're not enough. But the true function of failure isn't to build your character or make you more resilient. Those are just consequences. The true function of failure is to be a filter for reality. Every time you fail, reality is giving you, for free, honestly, and brutally, the most valuable lesson of all: "Not this way. This path is not it." Success is nothing more than the result of having previously found, through a series of blows, all the paths that didn't work. So don't celebrate your failures. Study them. They are the most accurate road map you will ever have, with all the wrong routes marked in red. Thanks to your failures, you will know exactly where not to pass through again. Think of your failures as the simple magic of walking.
I like this framing a lot. Failure isn’t poetic in the moment, but it’s honest feedback. Treating it as data instead of a personal flaw makes it easier to keep moving.
Thank you 🤓
Glad it resonated. Reframing failure that way takes some of the sting out and makes progress feel possible.
This is great, thank you.
Sirmadam,
Who romanticizes failure???
Where are you that you are seeing that?
Uhm... what do you even mean by celebrating your failures? As in what you think people are throwing them a party?
Celebrating your failures is the typical line you'd hear from a guru. But yes, if you learn to see your failures as the normal path (your daily walk that, by elimination, eventually leads you to the right way), you can stop seeing them as a blow to the gut and start having a reason to celebrate them (without the guru clichés).
Celebrate your failures is because of what you can learn from them... not just arbitrarily woopsy daisy I done goofed up let's have a partay
This is a bit cringe, there's no "function" or purpose from failure, it's what you make out of it. Stop trying to portray it as a mechanism meant to happen. It's not. It's what you do with it....