2006-06-25 17:07:11 · 20 answers · asked by ikwya 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That would be relative to what you were trying to fail at.
In reality failure is part of the pathway to success. So you really can't have one without the other. Success is really doing everything that fails first.
Learning the right way to do something isn't really success and doesn't make you an expert. Being an expert means you have discovered every possible way to fail first. Like Edison and the light bulb.
The simple answer to your question is you have done both. If you were trying to fail and succeeded instead, then you failed at failing, which was your original purpose of trying.
2006-06-25 17:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by jeffrey_meyer2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple, you succeed. Your trying to fail is a goal for success, and can only be reached by succeeding - not failing.
2006-06-26 00:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by amartouk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice little puzzle... :-)
If you try to fail at let say fixing a broken chair, this would be the consequence...
a) you fail to fix the chair - failure
b) you succeed in your attempt to fail - success
But, another way of looking at it is... in succeeding at (b), you have failed becuase you were trying to fail in the first place. You have now succeeded, that is a failure on your part.
But, if that is a failure, then you have succeeded in your attempt to fail.
Nice little circularity. :-)
2006-06-26 00:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both! Cause success is success but even thinking about failing is failing. Great question!
2006-06-26 00:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Hilary 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have succeeded in the task you wanted to do. If failing at something is what you wanted to do, than you accomplished it. its a win/lose situation.
2006-06-26 00:11:09 · answer #5 · answered by lestatia84 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can you aspire to failure when failure itself is the absence of success? to aspire is to succeed and to succeed is to not fail....so first and foremost, it would be impossible to try to fail, let alone succeeding at it.
chinese riddle for ya, rhonda....(dave chappelle quote, before anyone says that their name isn't rhonda)
2006-06-26 00:20:21 · answer #6 · answered by jkelmagic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've done become a label-er and a dogmatic know-it-all pie hole who needs many hours of therapy... presuming you have eliminated all assumptions and continue to manifest neurotic behavior
2006-06-26 00:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
failed, very cool article on this in the book Scientology a new slant on life by L. Ron Hubbard
2006-06-26 00:15:14 · answer #8 · answered by Barry C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have succeded at failing, because you wanted to fail so you suceed in it.
2006-06-26 00:10:50 · answer #9 · answered by poisonpassion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uve succeded in failing, kind of a loss/win/thing
2006-06-26 00:10:13 · answer #10 · answered by paige_squirrel_goddess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋