Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Postive Intentions of Failure and Loss

Failure and Loss normally bring people negative feelings, such as pain, anger, frustration, and so on. People also are unwilling to experience those feelings, so they regard failure and loss bad and try to avoid them.

But negative feelings of failure and loss have positive intentions:
  • They tell us that something is not working or doesn't function properly any more, let it go.
  • We might be able to learn something from our mistakes that cause the failure and loss.
  • We might study more in the areas that we are undertaking.
  • Others.

Failure and Loss are the part of a process. We might embrace them. Willingness to experience feelings of failure and loss gives us the courage to trial and error and can help us to learn from failures and to grow. A Chinese saying that I like:

Failure is the mother of Success

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