Seeing this prompt, my mind was drawn aback to a certain post I made some time back concerning this same subject matter of failure. I tagged it ”Failure is the Pillar of Success.” At some point I myself was finding it that idea to be ridiculous. However, I was able to reconcile within me how that stands true－to a very large extent. Not withholding, it's possible to attain a measure of success without facing a failure in a venture. However, some great successes require some big failures.
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Undeniably, our minds react in a defensive way against any form of failure. We hate to lose, we hate to fail. This in a way has structured our minds to be abhorrent towards failure and any signs of it rather than embrace it as a stepping stone towards success.. A hard truth is that we can't attain a level of success in life without a measure of failure behind the scenes of the success stories.
I've come to embrace failure as an integral part of my success journey, for whatever course I was embarking on. With every plan and strategy, well articulated and put in place, failure can still be a possibility. My mind has learnt to accept that. Some long time back however, such won't be said to be the case. Like while I was in school...
So I had a business idea. In a bid to see fruitful results, I sought advice to help me through；if that was feasible and wise or not. It looked like a good idea, but there was skepticism from the advice I got. It then looked like an unfruitful venture. I still felt the need to maybe do more of a feasibility check, sadly I couldn't or rather didn't. It guess I didn't see it succeeding, though I was encouraged to research more on it.
Later I discovered a friend invested into that idea. No, we never discussed it and he never heard it from someone close to me－it wasn't a totally new idea, so I got why he thought of it. I could just imagine what it would've meant to my finance.
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I could go over a thing a number of times if it meant doing so, so giving up wasn't really much of a thing. I had issues with a subject in school; right from primary education. When it looked like it couldn't get any better, I pushed on still. It will be good to note that several lessons were taken to find footing in the subject, yet it was like a failed effort. My exams and test scripts reflected it all.
Somehow, keeping the right spirit and the help of God, I later became well aqaunaited with the subject that I later taught people while in secondary education. It had indeed felt like a continuous failure in that aspect, and I just imagine what it would have been like had it been it didn't turn out this way. Well, today I find joy teaching others that very subject.
Is failure a prerequisite for success? Maybe, maybe not. Nevertheless, one way or another, we learn from failures to succeed－not necessarily our failures but that of others that we don't have to take that path ourselves. On the hive blockchain, I'm yet to come across that which I fear to get engaged with. Maybe when I explore more, I'll do; chuckles.