Khadidja Hassein_Bey
3 min readJun 11, 2021

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ARE WE AFRAID OF FAILURE

1/INTRODUCTION

Failure is such monster that let’ s someone numb and afraid to start again.That is especially when the failure is being repeating.

Though failure might be a let motive of the success mostly.

2/CAN WE SUCCEED WITHOUT FAILURE

The natural history of the success has revealed that most persons that have succeeded had known first failure in their life.

There are many examples like Walter Disney; Albert Einstein; Martin Luterking; Nelson Mandela and many other contemporary personalities.

3/WHY ARE WE AFRAID TO START AGAIN

There are many reasons that let someone afraid to restart.

  • When we think we first have done all to succeed and that our endeavor meet failure we finish then to lack somehow self insurance.
  • We do not want to live the same experience again.
  • We put in question our previous and future choices.We develop doubt about our actions and especially our future.
  • We want to control all the future projects. We become more severe and selective.
  • When failure is a perfect way to let someone evolve and a way to elaborate the success path; albeit and nowadays the social and work standard become a high threshold hard to achieve.

It is the case of the physical standard model criteria and the displayed perfect mannequins that are on all web sites.

Also; the work world requires fine specialized skills and accepts only creative elites.

That is to say we become more perfectionist because our life requires from us to be so nowadays. That is to warranty a certain place within our technological world that has overwhelmed the concepts and is very demanding.

4/SOME FAILURE QUOTES

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill

“Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

5/PSYCHOLOGY OF FAILURE:

Failure can know multiple aspects. Some people adopt the acceptance attitude and others adopt the refusal.

ACCEPTANCE:

Some people finish by accepting failure as a normal result of their acts.They think they are unable to succeed. They feel culpability; a lack of love of the oneself and they can develop depression.

REFUSAL:

Most people that refuse failure might consider their failure as a way to succeed. They analyze their failure to go forward and succeed. Like this they recognize their negative and positive points. They learn from their failure.

That is despite some other people that refuse failure completely and reject it and slip into a depression because they develop culpability.

CONCLUSION

Failure is a part of our life and someone cannot succeed without failure.Failure is a fact that should be analyzed so that not only to know its reasons and determinate the responsibility but to learn from it. No one accept failure by nature. But someone should nominate failure with another appellation like :THE EVENT and go forward.

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Khadidja Hassein_Bey

I am a freelance writer since 2010. I am a physician too since 1989.I write stories; poems; and articles. I am interested in health/theology/history and others.