Is failure a matter of perspective?

Question

Since failure is basically a feeling, I think that someone can fail in doing something and gain so much benefit from it that they don't even consider it a failure, nor do they FEEL they've failed. So wouldn't it be a matter of perspective?
What do you consider failure to be?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as "failure" - only things we haven't yet learned.

Answer 2

Failure is a matter of perspective , because it is how you view the failure. Failure is a condition not a feeling, but only you can chose how to react to your failure. Even if you have failed you can gather many things from your experience, even if there are emotions of sadness, from not having the condition know as success. The bottom line, in all life experiences and conditions, its ultimately what you can take away from the situation...its all about the learning, good or bad it shapes us into who we will be :)

Answer 3

Failure is relative to the goal you set for yourself in any task. It is an usucessful attempt to achieve quantifiable objectives or benchamrks. e.g. if you have a business target to get 300 customers and $50,000 in 6 months and you only get 277 customers and $49, 500 in the 6 months then you have failed. Of course it is not a monumental failure and have acquited yourself very well in relation to the goals you set. You also may not feel extremely dissapointed because your performance was not that poor, but on the technical side of the goal assesment you have failed.

Your emotional IQ determines how well you handle failure and the lessons you take from it. So in that sense your own feelings of failure is personally determined, but the empirical facts still remain.

Answer 4

A true failure is the opposite of development (in the sense of what nature intends). There are different contexts for the word. I think in simple terms failure is the opposite of the will, and in that sense many good things can result (learning experiences) from failure. Sometimes maybe positive mutations occur from failure too. Also, in the sense of a narrow conception of success and failure maybe allowing 'failure' is liberating in the sense that one doesn't need such control and can allow a much greater range of experience without judging it.

Answer 5

Your query provides it's own solution. One must recognize a lack of sucess in order to garner the invaluable experiences there in. Beyond that, true failure is only a matter of not percieving the worth of the experience.

Answer 6

Failure comes as a blessing in disguise.
This holds for all except those who are incorrigible.
The idea is to take a lesson rather than fall in pits and lament over it and curse fate.

Answer 7

Failure can also be a matter of 'LIFE OR DEATH', and the failure to make the right decision.

Can be the decisive, reply to the question of "Life or Death?"

Answer 8

Perspective...that's good...From a so called failure something is always learned...so is it really a failure?

Answer 9

To me it is a perspective. Materially, i wouldn't be considered a success. I've had many hardships and few opportunites. However, spirtually and mentally, im very successful. I've survived the things i been through and im not on drugs, im educated and very strong headed. So success comes in different areas. It all depends on what's important to you.

Answer 10

Dear, in philosophy, EVERYTHING can be a
matter of perspective.
If failure is defined as the condition of not meeting
a requirement, then:
If the requirement is objective then it's real.
If the requirement is subjective, then you may have
a point.

Answer 11

Failure is working as a janitor at the college where you got your art degree.

But with persistence, failure can be the spur that drives you to success (and yes, this answer is autobiographical).