Is Failure really the key to success??

I have heard this a million times already ‘Failure is the key to success’… How many times have you heard this ? I have heard it so many times that I use it to feel a little better every time I am down and depressed because I have failed yet again. And if this were true, I promise you that I would be one of the most successful people by now. Thats how many failures I have had already!  But no, here I am… still struggling…

So, no it is not failure, its definitely  not failure that lays down our path to success, that brings us closer to our goals, to achieving something that we once thought impossible.

And I am not just talking from my own experience here. I have seen many people experience failure, in fact, I think I do not know any one person who has not lived through a failure in life. Yet, I do not see all of them succeeding at what they once failed. You know what, I think this phrase ‘Failure is the key to success’ was coined to only allow us to feel okay about our failures. And it does a pretty good job at that! It has personally helped me get through some bad times, but what I am saying here is that to succeed, it is not enough to just fail…

Well if failure is not what spurs the success then what does?

I think it is our response to our failure. It is how we handle our failures….

It is our ability to get back in the game and learn from our failures. Failure can help drive us in the right direction only if we are able to look at in the face and analyze it, take full responsibility for it and then not just stop at that but get back in the game to try yet again. It is our ability to quickly moving from – ‘Oh no, I have failed!’  to ‘Okay, lets try this again’. It is our human nature, we all feel disappointed and discouraged at first but our ability to move from feeling down with the failure to accepting the failure and embracing what we learnt from it to apply in the future is what sets us apart from people who fail to succeed in the end.

So lets get back in the game and work at developing an attitude towards our failures that will indeed make them the pillars of our success someday!