Reality Check: Most of you will fail...

"If you know your enemy and you know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle."

-Sun Tzu

I suppose it depends how you look at it. “Setback” can mean: "Opportunity to progress, advance, and succeed”.

Otherwise I agree. Consistent action is a prerequisite for succeeding.

Desperation is the best motive in these situations. But not the best in terms of how you are then. It needs a lot of strength to stay focused and succeed in something nowadays. The choises and the distractions are infinite.

We all fail --sometimes!

The important thing to keep learning, so that you don't fail the same way twice

I think it's best not to place a negative label on failing. Each time something doesn't work out, I break down what happened that caused the setback and forge a new course of action. Yeah I might get a little upset but it happens and I keep moving forward. Always look at failures as reconstructing your goal. The only time you really fail is when you don't continue the path to achieving success.

Agreed.

However, I make a distinction between persevering in a wrong direction and persevering in a good one. I think that you have to keep going in general, but also leave the wrong paths. If I start doing something and at one point the desire and motivation fade, I have to wonder what the motive is. If I find that that direction does not suite me anymore, I change it. If I find that I'm simply getting lazy and comfortable, then I kick myself into action.

And setbacks are just challenges that make the end result more pleasurable. When you work hard for something, you enjoy it many times more than when you get it easily.

every failure just gets you closer to success!

TL;DR

Most people fail, because they give up too soon.

:-)

Well, if you believe that you might not achieve success, because most people will fail, and you can just as easily be the one to fail as anyone else, it really is 99,9% chance that you wil fail.

But, if you understand why people fail, and what it takes to succeed, and you decide to succeed, your chances will be much higher. And most people in the top 1% have done that.

I don't even think about failing. It's a negative thought, which will affect my decisions, which will lead to other actions. Other actions leads to other results.

i like the new definition but it is not good to say that do you have what it takes
because the old definition suits the scenario more
no one has everything for what he is doing but has to build strength and try everything that needs to be done
if you start wrestling you can't beat john cena the same day you started
now think what it takes
here you have to build yourself facing problems and train yourself with learning
here comes that you have to keep going and never giveup

Failing is temporary, giving up is forever.. I hate failing but I certainly know that failing is part of success

I have never seen a loving couple who never go thru heart breaks,
I have never seen a person who can ride a bike without first falling down,
I have never seen a successful entrepreneur who never gone thru setbacks and obstacles.

It's the process.

Jeremiah

Is that really the question? Or is the question not rather "do I want what it takes if I have to swim through an ocean of doubts and despair first?"

Rule of the thumb: full self realization leads to full success.

If THAT makes me part of the one percent - then I was lucky indeed and gifted as well.

I think people often forget the the people who have acheived the most in terms of success are those that have failed the most!

Failure is good thing. It shows you one more thing not to do...

Stay Strong & Propser

cheers

Anton

<----------This guy is not failing. No matter what hoops he has to jump through. Building up motivation and momentum everyday!

In order to talk about failure, you have to define its opposite, success. There are 8 pillars to success: Physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological, financial, work, relationships and rest/relaxation. You can be successful in some and not in others.

We also have to recognise that 80 of small business startups fail to survive their first 5 years and of those that do, only 5 will be surviving and thriving after a further 5. Which tells you that if you want to fail, follow conventional wisdom because the owners of all of those failed businesses all read the same books, attended the same type of workshops etc etc. So if you want to succeed, you have to be prepared to go against the grain!

the only real failure is to quit, everything else is just part of learning

I happen to agree that a good many people wont make it to where they want to be with life. From what I have seen, this has got a lot to do with the fact that most people are not willing to work hard for prolonged periods of time. Hard work is not embraced. Hardcore persistence often makes the difference between successful people and average folk.

Failure is in the eye of the beholder. I choose to see these 'failures' as lessons in how not to think, (and in how not to say or do things). Another arrow in my quiver of wisdom and experience. I take a lot more chances now because I don't believe in failure, only in opportunity.

Get up, patch your self up and keep the gun ready for another opportunity. It all depends on your motivation and your desire. The larger the motivation the larger the blow you can take. But quitting is not a bad thing.. just look for something else that you are good at. there's no point wasting 5 years of your life doing the exact thing over and over again and expect different results.

Failure gives you experience. It fuels your determination to strive more. It's just saying that there are better things for you. Welcome the failures you get, learn from it and make your self better.

Failure is not negative, it is positive. It is just a medium that will help a person to motivate himself in order to succeed. In fact, failures are parallel and directly proportional to success. The more you fail, the more you learn- the more you learn, the more you succeed. Failure is part of learning but most people are afraid. Do you know what makes a person not successful? “To GIVE-UP!”

A very frank statement which makes me feel quite uneasy, but only because I know it's true. I know that because of what I want to achieve in life I'll never be able to stop and think 'Right I'm done, I've finally made it'. I feel like that would be great now, but maybe at the time I'd just have to start looking for the next 'project' anyway, so either way I suppose I can't complain.

we all experienced Failure in life or in whatever aspects in our life but failure come when you stop learning, or in a point that you are tired.. Just keep going so that it wont let you down again.. accept things and move forward.

You are succesful if

1) You can feed your family and educate your children well.

2) You die after seeing your grand kids.

3) You spend your whole life with your loved ones. If after the age of 80, your wife looks into your eyes and say "I love you". You are a success

4) You have good healthy life till your old age.

5) Your kids believe in good karma and dont hurt anyone for pity profits. When someone appreciate them. They say "'Its because of my parent's upbringing". You are a success.

However, you are not a failure if

1) You fail to create million dollars

2) You fail to own rolls royce

3) You fail to get to stage where million people know you.

4) You dont spend nights in 5 star hotels.

If you fail to achieve this, this doesnt make you failure at all. You still got lot of success in my opinion.

So true. I try to think of failure as strength. Anyone that can comeback from massive failure and become successful is a powerful person. It takes mental toughness and sickening will power to keep getting up after being knocked off your feet time and time again.

I believe the failures will make reaching success that much sweeter.

how I feel about failure can be summed up in Samuel Beckett's amazing quote about failure:

"ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. FAIL BETTER!"

I didn't read all of the comments in hear so someone may have already said this but its worth saying again...

All I hear is the word fail and it makes me cringe.. Failure does not exist on the plane with success... See you never fail if you are looking for success..

The first thing you must understand if you are to be successful is that we do not fail if we learn.. If you learn a lesson that will keep you from doing it again or how to do it better next time then there is no way to fail..

Life is trial and error.. We didn't just stand and walk it took some falling down to get there... I bet we never saw it as failure until someone put a label on it...

So eliminate the word failure from your vocabulary if you are to be successful.. Learn from the trials and errors of life... Smile and know you just learned something that will change everything...

I enjoy people like you.. Ones that care enough to try and keep moving forward no matter what...

Stay determined my friends the Top isn't as far as it looks...

We all have got what it takes. Not all are able to harness them. That's why there are more failures than successes. Remember the saying, "If you think you can or cannot, you are probably right."