The July contest #2 by sduttaskitchen: Overcome the fear of failure!
Do you consider the management of failure in life to be the most significant challenge individuals encounter? Your Viewpoint!.
There’s no doubt that dealing with failure is one of the most challenging situations that a person could face, but calling it the challenge is an overstatement of life. Failure is an obstacle to everyone; it breaks our narratives, hurts our egos, and requires psychological reorganization. But for most individuals, failure is secondary to other challenges, such as dealing with uncertainty, loss, and self-actualization.
Though it requires resilience, other kinds of challenges – like enduring the pain of loss, system injustices or chronic diseases – may present much greater and complex situations that can’t be easily overcome just by having a change of mind. Therefore, failure is not the greatest human challenge but the main challenge that we face that allows us to develop psychological strategies needed to overcome our many other problems in life.
Do you concur that failure manifests simultaneously in both indoor and outdoor environments? Your Perception!.
The concept of failure occurring simultaneously in both the indoors and outdoors is indeed true as it can be analyzed in the lens of psychological or metaphoric contexts. Indoors can be said to describe the personal, the private sphere within our private space, or our very thoughts, mind and homes, as well as our relationships with loved ones. Outdoor is described as the external domain, where professional careers, social activities, or the general public reside.
Whenever someone encounters an external failure such as failure in business, in career, in academic endeavors, the news would undoubtedly come home, breaking the private, domestic interior. This external failure would bring with it the internal fear and psychological breakdown of its victims in their private lives.
Similarly, whenever a failure occurs in the indoor aspect of one’s life such as loss of a loved one or a severe breakdown in mental health, one’s life performance outdoors is also severely affected. Human psychology does not operate in isolated containers and so as when an indoor or outdoor event of failure occurs, its counterpart can also not escape the devastating effects of this problem.
How can one effectively manage failure and subsequently overcome it? Please share some recommendations.
The best strategy to effectively handle failure is to move from a position of reacting and emotions to one that is objective and calculating.
- De-emphasize yourself: Avoid making it personal. Just because you have experienced failure doesn’t mean you are a failure. See this event as information rather than reflection on your abilities or potential. View failure as a point of data in a particular strategy you had.
Give yourself permission to cry a bit (or get mad for a bit), but don’t allow it to consume you. Analyze the failure analytically, brutally: Figure out, unemotionally, what exactly was the cause of the failure.
Don’t attempt to jump into making grand, risky decisions that will probably lead you down to a bigger hole. Make small, but calculative steps and adjust your strategy along the way. By taking baby steps, you are building confidence and re-engagement again in the pursuit of your endeavors.
In short, failure is an indelible feature of living a full and vibrant life. It isn’t a stop sign; it’s just the toll paid to climb for something high.
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