if you plan 2 fail and you succeed which one have you done???
2007-06-05 06:44:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
you have succeeded in confusing yourself
2007-06-06 04:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In one sense of course this is a contradiction, because if you truly want to fail, and you succeed, you have in effect failed.
However there are two other ways to approach this.
One: If you are planning to fail - and you succeed, that is to say you are successful at failing - then when one says "if you plan to fail and you succeed" then "succeed" actually means "you have failed" i.e. successfully have done what you planned to do.
Two: depends on what is truly meant by "plan to fail" - it could mean you truly want to fail; or it could mean that you are planning for the POSSIBILITY of failure - planning, that is, with failure as a possible outcome. That is, "plan to fail" could be shorthand for "plan for the possibility of failure" - therefore, succeeding is what it is, and what you planned to do all along, and a good thing.
I had NO idea I was going to write this much!
2007-06-05 13:52:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you succeeded in failing
2007-06-05 13:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you failed, as you planned, then you have succeeded! Congratulations!
2007-06-05 13:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've done both- you've succeeded at your plan for failure, but you've failed at whatever it is you failed.
2007-06-05 13:48:16 · answer #5 · answered by fizzygurrl1980 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have done nothing
2007-06-05 15:04:22 · answer #6 · answered by Manz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋