Serious answers only please. Having to do with failure and judgment is this question...?

Question

They say failure is not an option, but failure will always be there. so is it better or worse to say, never use failure as an option; and never think of it as an option.

How often do you use failure as an option, and why. the two major reasons i find people to use failure as an option:
1) Because they can't handle the mission, the work to get to the accopleshment
2)attention, they think that by failing they will get attention withiout all that much effort.

Answer 1

Those who have never failed have never truly attempted to challenge themselves.

How do you determine failure? If someone realizes at forty that they have been working there whole life to benefit someone else’s dream, have they failed? Or have they been tricked by a society where the rich control the media, where the work ethic is dictated by those who don’t have to work. Is it failure for this person to drop out of the race, live in a cave and become Zarathustra?

Answer 2

Thomas Edison was dead set on trying to invent the electric light bulb. He, and his staff, went through some 1,500 types of filliments, that might withstand the electric current applied to it, before he finally found one that really seemed to do the job!

Did he consider himself a failure because it took him 1,500 trials before he found the answer? Of course not. He only said that he concluded that there were at least 1,500 reasons why one should consider using his current idea to build more light bulbs than all those others that didn't work. Or words to that effect.

You need to start thinking of the glass being half full instead of seeing it as being half empty. That's all. Think positively. Don't use the word "try," instead use the word "do!"

"Do or do not. There is no try" [YODA ]

Also, please read this book, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. It will be the most unforgettable book you ever read (except the bible maybe). You will find it in the self-improvement section of any bookstore. Buy the larger size edition if you can, as it has a summary at the end of each chapter that will put things together for you. If this book were taught in high schools, this country would truly be a super power from now on. Getting rich doesn't just mean making a lot of money. You'll see why when you read the book. There is a great secret contained in the book. You might find it on the first few pages, or somewhere else, even toward the end chapters. That secret will be most important to you. As you read it, highlight the most important sentences in yellow. Then ask your spouse, boyfriend, significant other, to read it and highlight the parts that are significant to him/her in blue. The result will be green, of course, and will be your signal that you are thinking along the same lines in those areas. It can be your "bible" together for the rest of your life. Enjoy!

Answer 3

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite to success, people have to fail over and over again before they can be successful. This is why in the old Zen Saying "To know the road ahead ask those coming back" There is nothing you are trying that has never been done before, only few ideas can pass as new and not requiring the same basic resources, but when you liaise with people who had been there before, the chances of failure will be minimised. Also remember Thomas Eddison failed 9,999 , before he could invent electric light bulb. And each failure he said just proves that there is a different method out there waiting for him.
Failure is actually a motivator for some people, Tiny Roland said give me failure as it keeps me alive.

Answer 4

I think this question is overthought... Failure is not an option to the strong-willed, and never will be. Failure is an option to the weak and weak minded. Never overwhelm yourself with doubt until you have tried to conquer your mission. Attention is probably one of the most ridiculous ways for failure that i have ever heard, it brings negative attention, when succeeding you would get positive attention. I am extremely strong-willed and will not take failure as an option... I think that maybe you should stop thinking about failing and start thinking about succeeding.

Answer 5

The only people that ever accept failure as an option are those who don't take time to create a better option.

Answer 6

hm thats a real tricky one. in most things, i really try not to consider failure as an option, but what ive found is that it often stresses me out way more than i need to be. of course it motivates you to do great things, but it really can be harmful to set your standard too high. when i do make failure a legitimate option, id say it agrees with your #1. practically speaking, we let ourselves fail when the consequences for trying to succeed outweigh the consequences of failing. thats the positive way of looking at it. the other explanation is that people allow themselves to fail when they get lazy. you made a good point though, that failure never goes away. i vote that its better to think of it as an option, as long as youre not lazy about it.

Answer 7

In my humble opinion, when someone uses the term, "Failure is not an option.", you have to look at the sentiment behind it. Like if they are searching for a lost child or a cure to a disease, they are saying that they want everything possible done to obtain the best outcome. Others use that phrase to instill fear in others, to extol some control over things that are potentially very dangerous.
In every word spoken, there is the potential for it to be taken or meant in ways they were not meant to be. My mother always said, "Make your every word sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

Answer 8

Failure to some, changing the tune to me.

When I had another option lined up, I let the putz team-leader named Chris, who didn't like the store manager liking me, finally get what he wanted: I quit. He even laughed and said, "What?" So I made his day and mine. And probably chubby Will's day too. Both of them were recruiting their underlings to harrass me and try and get me to quit. My work was perfect and above par though, so they couldn't nab me that way. Then they resorted to giving me 3 verbal warnings about the same problem, the same weeks overages of hours (just 2). Yes, I received 3 verbal warnings about the same violation. Bogus. I wonder if Chris the store manager knows, probably not. I'll have to send him a card. Merry Chrismakwanzahannukah!!!!! So I'm happy and working someplace else, and they're happy a woman isn't outperforming them in the area of physical strength; those overweight, smoking, beer-drinking losers. (Oh, did I mention that the putz tried to call me a liar about having too many hours? This is what he did before when I tried to avoid the same problem that I got 'warned' about.)

Win=win. Always happy.

Answer 9

Failure is something that happens kinda like s**t! You should gain every ounce of experience from it. And never be ashamed for it. I think they say its not a choice because you should never want to fail. Would you really wanna fall off a bike every time you got on one?

Answer 10

Actually, I think you're taking the wrong context. "Failure is not an option" in my opinion, means that you never give up. Plain and simple.