2007-01-03 02:35:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Yes but only if you learn from it and you won't repeat the same mistakes
2007-01-03 02:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. If you get 10,000 people killed then you've failed - no matter how much you might have learned. And those guys that used to run Enron sure know a lot about accounting now, right?
Failure is a matter of scale and consequences. If I do poorly on an exam and learn to do better next time, then a-ok! I've turned that failure to success. But big mistakes get no do-overs.
2007-01-03 10:39:34 · answer #2 · answered by texascrazyhorse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In terms of "results," a failure will always be a failure, whether or not you learned from it.
However, in terms of a "process", a failure could be a success if it gets you to re-examine your process and HOW you think or do things, so that after much knowledge gained, you are able to avoid similar failures in the future.
The key, I think, is to learn early in life the "success process" in order to avoid "failure results."
Indeed, it's fairly easy to learn after one has failed. The truly superior human beings (and we all have the capacity to become superior beings) will foresee obstacles and risks in order to AVOID failure in the first place.
Most people usually are not willing to sit down and plan things out carefully, or try to predict where the risks will be coming from, which is why they fail and then are forced to learn from failure.
To answer your question, I would say that "a failure is not a total failure if you learn from it."
To believe that a failure can become a success if one learns from it, is like giving yourself permission to fail because you think that you can always convert it into success.
This might be dangerous thinking that convinces a person that he/she doesn't have to plan ahead carefully in order to avoid predictable failures.
Someone might say, "Well, there are things that happen in life that you can't really foresee or plan for." In that case, it is not failure, but simply fate, and the person is not at fault at all.
2007-01-04 06:13:02 · answer #3 · answered by superscribe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your thinking. I do believe that although it was originally a failure, you will make success out of the failure.
2007-01-03 10:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by Jfranc1 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Failure is progress when u learn from it and refuse to stay down despite the great odds of you failing in your endeavour, never giving up is the biggest weapon anyone has against failure
2007-01-03 10:54:35 · answer #5 · answered by mysteaq 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES!! that is the only way you succeed. School would have you to believe the opposite. example: don't fail the test or you'll fail the course. In life it's the opposite the only failure is the one that quits. Winner fail adjust and try again.
2007-01-03 10:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by John 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well,...it could but...I say stick to the basic definitions. Failure is when you don't get the result you want. If you learn from it and continue towards the goal you seek -that is perseverance. Once you get the achieve your goal, then that is success! Great question! More logic questions please!!!
2007-01-03 15:23:29 · answer #7 · answered by bz_sage_sedotes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes of course if u have got success over the failure and have over taken it
2007-01-03 10:40:57 · answer #8 · answered by sugar girl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement, so theoretically failure is developing the tools to succeed.
2007-01-03 11:22:26 · answer #9 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But not the one that finishes you up!
2007-01-03 10:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by monya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋