The Wisdom Of Failure

The wisdom of feeling a failure is seeing obstacles – the rawness of the path – which helps us empathise with others, while ‘success’ keeps us on autopilot.

A sense of failure prevents personal stagnation, forcing us to take a more detailed look at why we feel this way. It’s usually a conventional, social thing as we fall for the glitz and the charismatic.

Failure is the tyranny of expectations, which is the external definition of success. We should distinguish between being a loser, and being lost. When we know what we are, it doesn’t mean that others will know what we are. 🙂

Staying present with discomfort rather than running from it is the most direct way to become a fulfilled human being. We evolve more through things going wrong than through things going right, using failure as a path of growth. If we just go along with others’ views, we’ll only be following behind.

We can feel a failure, but still keep going.