I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I’ve lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan.

The life we have and many things that we do every day do not necessarily have clear cut instructions. Our search for the perfection never ends, we learn many new things every day. How do we learn them? For some things there are instruction manuals for the rest we do experiments with logic, with our intellect and with some common sense, to silence our curiosity. There are very few experiments in our life that work out on their first run. We do mistakes and than we learn from them to reach to that perfection that we have imagined as a result or the end product. If we are ready to learn from the failure than the road is endless, learning is endless. But if we start to give up from our failures than we become overcautious, we become scared of speaking up, we become scared of trying new things and in return it affects our personal and professional growth. As Marilyn Vos Savant said, “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent”.


There is nothing pleasant about failure, at least not at the time when it happens, it embarrasses us. What we have to teach our kids is, parents and teachers can’t teach everything to them, they have to learn from their mistakes and failures and rise above them. easy said than done. If we give our kids the right perspective on failure, than it can be a spring board to success and not a hindrance.We will be able to prepare them to handle the real world, where nothing good comes easy. We have to devote some time to our kids everyday to check what they did all day. In the conversation almost everyday they will come up with the scenario’s where they have done the mistake or failed in something and as parents we have to help them to understand that there is nothing wrong with the failures and mistakes. We will be able to teach them to build realistic expectations that success does not come easy, that winning comes from losing and learning, that when we lose we must learn from them and not give up. Remember there are quick solutions and than there are solutions that take little bit long but the learning from them lasts forever.

However, failure can be a blessing in disguise. Through it we can learn what doesn’t work. Then we can find what does. Failure is a much better teacher than success. Success makes our heads swell. failure makes us stop, look and listen. If we can add “Learn” to this sequence than failure becomes the first step to success. Stop-Look-Listen-Learn; that’s the way to profit from failure.