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The answer to what is failure?

This post was written by doctorjay on July 22, 2009
Posted Under: NLP

Yesterday, I asked on the main Life Focus Center Blog, "What is failure? "

Here is the simple answer:

There’s no such thing as failure

Failure and success are simply words. They are attitudes you have to events. As Shakespeare , and the Stoic philosopher Epictetus said, events have no meanings in themselves but are given meanings (good/bad) by us. So of course if you call something as a failure it is so.

However, if you call the same event as a learning experience, you’ll learn from that event and that learning will lead to your eventual success. Thus we have all heard of Thomas Edison who said about his experiments to produce the electric light bulb, "I never failed. I succeeded in discovering thousands of methods which would not work. I knew if I continued I would run out of things which would not work and find those which would."

In NLP (neuro-linguistic programming – one of the sources of Transformative Imagination) we say, "There is no such thing as failure – only results."

When you have such an attitude toward life your ultimate success is assured. Imagine a todler learning to walk. The baby tries to get up and falls. And tries again and again and again and falls, and falls and falls. As parents do say the baby tried once and failed so that’s it? Or do you encourage the todler on each attempt.

Do you give up with your baby on the second, third, forth, fifth…. attempts? That’s why all babies (without organic problems) will learn to walk. They will be successful in walking. When you treat the baby within (we are all ruined babies – lost our innocence and not giving up) with encouragment, unconditional love, and a great positive attitude, your ultimate success is assured.

If you can walk (again assuming you had the body which could walk) then you have the brain power, stamina and self determination to succeed at anything that you can physically do (for example chances are if you are fifty, five five and unfit you will not be able to be an NBA start – but you may end up being a darn good basketball player for your age and height).

I think I better explain a little about the part above where I write about brain power. We take most things that we do for granted. In order to walk hundreds of muscles must move in a precise coordinated way. At the same time our visual system has to be in sync with our ballance system and sense of hearing…. And so on, and so on….

Just look at robots trying to walk and see how ungraceful they are and how much computing power they use and the walk a few feet and notice how wondrous it is that you walk so easily without a single thought.

And let’s face it how come you can walk, talk, eat, and do so many other things automatically?

You knew as baby: