I don't agree with this whole glorification-of-failure stuff that is posted occasionally.
It's not that I see failure as particularly bad, or horrible. It's that it's not the point. The point is to WIN. When you launch a startup, and fail, try again. But wouldn't it have been better to succeed? Isn't the point to make money, or build a platform, or win the game? Not every product has a market. Not every customer call will result in a sale. But the point is to make a winner.
Why would you purposely seek out failure?
Of course, the undercurrent here is that in order to succeed - in order to win big - you must risk a lot, and risk failure. Risking failure is necessary. Making mistakes happens. If you're not risking failure or humiliation, you're not playing the best game you can.
Risking failure is not the same as actually failing.
Maybe that's just semantics, but it is a very important difference. If you're purposely seeking failure, I feel sorry for you.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I see your point, and I think that all of us have the goal of winning in mind. Of course it would be better to just succeed right off the bat. But that's not realistic. Success is a process.
This post wasn't really about seeking out failure as it was about recognizing that we have limitations and taking that as a challenge to overcome them. It was also about further realizing that failure at something isn't necessarily an indictment of your ability to succeed but a sign that you are pushing yourself sufficiently that if you keep learning from your mistakes you WILL succeed eventually.
Second this. It's the same as the rejection therapy thing that started catching on. You need to be conscious of failure and unexpected outcomes but don't turn it into yet another friggin' cult movement or goal.
Set your target, go hard towards it, if you fail or come off the rails, accept it, assess it, suck it up and keep going.
All I see this doing is encouraging people to be wreckless, and not in a constructive way. Go hard, but hard enough that it's of benefit to you and your project, have some regard for the outcome that you actually want.
It's not that I see failure as particularly bad, or horrible. It's that it's not the point. The point is to WIN. When you launch a startup, and fail, try again. But wouldn't it have been better to succeed? Isn't the point to make money, or build a platform, or win the game? Not every product has a market. Not every customer call will result in a sale. But the point is to make a winner.
Why would you purposely seek out failure?
Of course, the undercurrent here is that in order to succeed - in order to win big - you must risk a lot, and risk failure. Risking failure is necessary. Making mistakes happens. If you're not risking failure or humiliation, you're not playing the best game you can.
Risking failure is not the same as actually failing.
Maybe that's just semantics, but it is a very important difference. If you're purposely seeking failure, I feel sorry for you.