What really determines if a person is a failure?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what criteria you use for that. One's legacy often is determined over time. How one handles a failure or setback often speaks to the issue of one's character. Many a person has been deemed a failure by their peers only to be later deemed to be successful, a la Mozart (dying destitute and not held in the highest regard). Einstein was deemed to ask too many questions in school and was judged to therefore be stupid. His response to failure in his attempts to invent the light bulb was to say he'd learned another way NOT to do it. Ultimately, I think God will judge our character.
I am sure the short term judgment of those who don't know all the facts is an unreliable way to make a judgment on someone. I agree with reader's that one's opinion about oneself is a part of that answer. Does someone's life make a positive impact on others - or are your contributions important, but unnoticed. Yours is a great question. Hope this shed a little light on it.

Answer 2

When a person refuses to try. Success is never achieved without failure. Success can never be achieved without the experience of failure.
Because you can see you can't say that you are successful at seeing, there was no effort involved. If you were almost blind and by some effort you were able to do some exercises with your eyes and improve your vision then that is success. If you knew it to work and wanted it to work for you and yet refused to even try then that is failure.

Answer 3

I think it is when they don't believe in themselves. They fail before they have even started, and tend not to put forth the full effort required (failing again). Then when the "project" fails they give up (failing again) and give many excuses as to why it failed (usually it is never their fault, since they can't admit to the problem, they don't get the problem, constant failing becomes a problem). It isn't nessecarily the project that was the failure it is the one running the "project". So when someone says something is messed up it is usually the operator...who didn't believe they could fix it or didn't want to fix it. Divorce seems to work this way only it involves two people.

Answer 4

Then one must define what is the meaning of live first. What is the reason and purpose of existence for that person, then one can determine what is success and what is failure.

Answer 5

Its what you think about yourself that determines if you are a failure. i go online to talk to counselors. don't know if this is allowed or not so i won't put the actual website but just the name. and you can do a search werlive

Answer 6

It's perspective. But really, I think that it's up to the individual to decide whether or not they have achieved what they had hoped to and whether or not they have "failed". We can't call other people failures simply because they have chosen different paths and lifestyles from our own.

Great question. :-)

Answer 7

Whether he or she FEELS like a failure.

Answer 8

Perspective.

Answer 9

failing

Answer 10

When they give up on themselves and no longer have a purpose in life.