What do you do if you contantly fail at things? If you stay the same or get worst in: sports, school, social life, etc. do you continue? Do you spend your whole life trying to succed but fail at this thing? A life of failure? Is that better than knowing when to quitting? Take that Optimistic people!
2007-06-11 09:52:14 · 12 answers · asked by Cpalms 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
So you mean.... everytime I fail I have to learn a lesson...... I learned one! Everytime I fail I learn that I suck even more! So does this mean Im good at failing! :)
2007-06-11 10:05:54 · update #1
I hate optimism so much....
2007-06-11 10:06:43 · update #2
Maybe you only succed when you fail.
2007-06-11 09:55:19 · answer #1 · answered by Fabi P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah optimistic people, suck it! :P
Aw man you're just in a funk, it happens to all of us. Think of this if someone failed at like everything ever and did not continue in the ultimate fashion by way of suicide then that would be the grand failure. The only thing to remember that person would be of failure. But if they lived the full life and even achieved basic simple stuff: got an apartment, a car that at least runs and a job that at least pays the bills then kudos to that guy. Because even if it just rains poo on some unfortunate soul then you gotta have respect for the guy who keeps trudging through it.
Oh wow am I some kinda lame philosopher now?
2007-06-11 16:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jenae, TV (tempter of the vile) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What do you do? Well, you could make like a politician and redefine failure as success ;D .
... or more constructively, you could look at why you're constantly chasing impossible goals, or raising the bar for yourself with any achievable goals so that even when you progress it's viewed as failure (by you). NOBODY fails at everything. That attitude is a personal mindset.
Example: if you want to play a certain sport, say tennis, do you set yourself the goal of being Roger Federer, or do you set yourself the goal of having a good time (which may include laughing at yourself when you screw up)?
If you're referring to yourself in this question, I'd say you should get over yourself. There's nothing clever about trying to be tragic. Lighten up. We all fail at heaps of stuff, but some of us accept it with good humour.
2007-06-19 05:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Cassandra C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry-you have another optomist. I've failed so many times I cant even count that high. I'll be 70 years old in January and I'm not good at anything. For some reason I was able to raise 4 children that are a credit to humanity and they in turn gave birth to 6 who are pretty darn good. If I had quit every time I failed, none of them would be in the world. Take my word for it-those kids are all good for the world. You are too. You just havent found what it is you're good at. You will. I guarantee it.
2007-06-18 22:22:21 · answer #4 · answered by techtwosue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been in this mode myself and know you have tokeep plugging along no matter what. What I do though is not focus on myself. But try to make someone else's llife a little bit better. And by staying optomistic that at some point my time will come. And I also know I am not living for myself. But others depend on me. They will use my life as an exmaple I hope of just staying with it no matter how tough it gets.
There is an old saying. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
2007-06-11 17:08:32 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you keep failing. Maybe you’re failing because you are trying to jump to the stars and you haven't even learned to crawl. Regardless if it's in sports, school, life. First choose something you like, regardless if you’re good at it or not. Then start small. But I mean extremely small. Then once you complete one task start on the other. If you don't complete it. Keep trying. Remember, you have to find your own way of doing things. Once you find your way. You'll still have set backs. But you will never fail.
2007-06-11 18:09:15 · answer #6 · answered by Damian S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find out why you fail.
There are people who want to fail, because they want people to feel sorry for them.
You could be one of them.
If you hate failure enough you will do something about it.
If you don't, then it is not a problem then, is it?
2007-06-18 12:53:18 · answer #7 · answered by Andromeda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even in failure, wisdom is gained. With each "failure" of a lifetime, a person grows and learns to handle another situation differently. As you look back on your life, it is evident that good has come from each situation - just as a forest regrows more healthy after a fire.
2007-06-11 17:02:36 · answer #8 · answered by divine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to go purchase that new book THE SECRET,! The old saying is , If you first don't succeed try, try, again until you do! Here in modern times we have come to realize the stupidity in this statement! Now a days it is, If you first dont suceed, give up, and move on to something else! So, like I said you need to move on to doing what the book THE SECRET tells you to do! Try it!
2007-06-11 17:03:06 · answer #9 · answered by tonal9nagual 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you are succeeding more than you know focus on the postive and not the negitive. I have found that anytime I have failed at something there is a valuable lession to be learned, learn it and you won't fail again...
2007-06-11 17:01:01 · answer #10 · answered by No Drama for this Queen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the price of success is so high that it is no longer success. Set smaller goals. I want to watch the sun set today. I should be able to do that one. Tomorrow maybe I will try to write an AI. If we succeed at watching the sun set that is.
2007-06-11 17:29:04 · answer #11 · answered by grey_worms 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋