SWEETNESS OF FAILURE
Striving for success is a goal that most of us don't ever question. We encourage our little ones to strive to win and we seek to scramble to the top of our own particular heaps. People who are too hung up on success can be so concerned about holding on to the positive results that they have achieved that they never stretch themselves.
There is a well known social psychological principle at play here , one captured well by the song lyric from the song Me and Bobby McGee " freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". Research on risk taking shows that people are less likely to take chances when they've reached a desired goal. If people have already lost something new a whirl.
Thomas Edison had qouted that " I have not failed. I just found 10000 ways that won't work". The upshot is that success breeds conservatism and a tendency to hold on to what you've got.Though failure isn't something we necessarily strives for, there are times when it leads us to loftier heights than we might otherwise achieve. EVERY FAILURE IS A STEPPING STONE TO SUCCESS.
By
Jeena K Benny
3011
There is a well known social psychological principle at play here , one captured well by the song lyric from the song Me and Bobby McGee " freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". Research on risk taking shows that people are less likely to take chances when they've reached a desired goal. If people have already lost something new a whirl.
Thomas Edison had qouted that " I have not failed. I just found 10000 ways that won't work". The upshot is that success breeds conservatism and a tendency to hold on to what you've got.Though failure isn't something we necessarily strives for, there are times when it leads us to loftier heights than we might otherwise achieve. EVERY FAILURE IS A STEPPING STONE TO SUCCESS.
By
Jeena K Benny
3011
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