How can challenges and failures lead to success?
Answers
we should work hard to get success if failures come on us we should try and try to get success
Explanation:
We all know that failure happens to everyone. The only thing that separates people who succeed from those who don’t is a proper understanding of what failure means. If you associate failure with defeat and despair, you will give up or take steps to avoid it at all cost. If, however, you associate failure with growth and improvement, you will use it as a springboard for future success.
Here are reasons why failure can lead to spectacular success
1. Produces Scrappiness
Many leaders are allergic to the idea of failure. They cannot tell the difference between an iteration that didn’t work, and defeat. Ego may be part of the reason because success, unfortunately, can create big heads.
However, many hard-working entrepreneurs believe failure creates success. Shark Tank investor Barbara Corcoran said she looks to invest in individuals who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds for that very reason.
“My bias toward the poor person coming up is they’re usually hungrier. They’re more injured. They have more to prove,” Corcoran said on an episode of Business Insider’s podcast, Success! How I Did It. “So they’ve had a few bumpy endings and they’re used to failure, and, my God, what’s more important in building a business than failing?”
How To Make It Work For You: Read up on Carol Dweck’s research on growth mindsets. It’s the idea that we can grow our brain’s capacity to learn and to solve problems. There are two ways to think about a problem that’s slightly too hard for you to solve: 1) are you not smart enough to solve it; or 2) have you just not solved it yet?
2. Teases Out The Scientist
Scientific experiments are built on this simple concept: make an assumption, experiment, prove it wrong, and continue until you can’t prove it wrong. Scientists are not afraid on being wrong on their way to being right.
This is the same idea behind innovation. The innovation curve of a startup reflects how a company learns based on trial and error. Too often we only hear about the success of Google and Facebook, but the more common story is about the entrepreneurs who fail multiple times before they nail it.
How To Make It Work For You: Look at each failure as an iteration that you closely examine for why it didn’t work. Once you understand how to change the potential outcome next time, try again. The key is to understand how you can modify your approach so you change the outcome.
3. Demands Reflection
This is something I learned in the FBI Academy: If you’re succeeding all the time, you’re not pushing your limits. Every new agent was pushed to the point of failure. At first I thought I’d joined a bunch of sadists. Eventually I came to understand that failure would be part of complex investigations. Often, agents need to circle a case several times before they discovered the soft underbelly. This meant several failures before the solution could be found and the case solved.
Part of the discovery lays in identifying whether the mistakes or failures are a product of our own weakness. I had good success on a couple of my first counterintelligence cases so, I figured I’d approach my next few cases the same way. Guess what? They were failures. Those failures demanded that I take a hard look at my weaknesses. In my situation, my failures were a result of a lack of confidence in myself. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be successful unless I used the same approach, but the context was different in the later cases.
To move forward, I had to reflect on what had happened, and work on how to resolve the situation. I needed to evolve and develop more confidence in my own abilities. It was painful, but because those moments of pain were so important, I didn’t rush through them. I stayed with them and explored them because I needed to build a foundation for improvement.
How To Make It Work For You: Write down your mistakes or failures and connect the dots. Identify the weakness that stands in the way of you getting what you want. You may have several, but don’t go beyond “the biggest three.” The important thing is to get those impediments out in the open.