Comments on: Fail more often at decision level http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/ Blogging is fun Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:43:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AjiNIMC http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-145288 AjiNIMC Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:33:19 +0000 http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-145288 Thanks for the comment Samir, welcome to the blog. >> How much failure is too much It is your call and the limitations you have, in short its you who decides it. Such are major decisions of life and that can make all the difference in life. You'll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end. Example is <a href="http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lincoln.asp" rel="nofollow">Abraham Lincoln</a>. To come to reality, yes we are not often allowed to fail enough. I wrote a post for http://www.sramanamitra.com/ "Why Indians fear failure". I am waiting for her to post it else I will post it here only. You have restrictions and limitations, you need to live within the system and thus will have to take the call sometimes. >> But then too many failures become at times the bottleneck for next level of growth. Never, it can never be a bottleneck for next level of growth. It will surely be the stepping stone for next success. >> So where according to you one should draw a line that this is it and call it a quit before failure becomes a habit. Failure will never become a habit, attempt will. Neither failure is in our hands nor success (.01% is success chances by the way), we go by cut feel that yes we are going to succeed this time. So attempt it. The person who is with a habit of attempt is highly valuable for any organization. I have great respect for them and try to give them helping direction. I think I should write another post, How to minimize the cost of failure? I practice this at work, I attempt but with max frugality. Thanks for the comment Samir, welcome to the blog.

>> How much failure is too much
It is your call and the limitations you have, in short its you who decides it. Such are major decisions of life and that can make all the difference in life. You’ll be surprised to know how far you can go from the point where you thought it was the end. Example is Abraham Lincoln.

To come to reality, yes we are not often allowed to fail enough. I wrote a post for http://www.sramanamitra.com/ “Why Indians fear failure”. I am waiting for her to post it else I will post it here only. You have restrictions and limitations, you need to live within the system and thus will have to take the call sometimes.

>> But then too many failures become at times the bottleneck for next level of growth.
Never, it can never be a bottleneck for next level of growth. It will surely be the stepping stone for next success.

>> So where according to you one should draw a line that this is it and call it a quit before failure becomes a habit.
Failure will never become a habit, attempt will. Neither failure is in our hands nor success (.01% is success chances by the way), we go by cut feel that yes we are going to succeed this time. So attempt it. The person who is with a habit of attempt is highly valuable for any organization. I have great respect for them and try to give them helping direction.

I think I should write another post, How to minimize the cost of failure? I practice this at work, I attempt but with max frugality.

]]> By: Samir Kumar Mishra http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-145266 Samir Kumar Mishra Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:02:18 +0000 http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-145266 How much failure is too much. You said Failures are stepping stones for success. But then too many failures become at times the bottleneck for next level of growth. So where according to you one should draw a line that this is it and call it a quit before failure becomes a habit. Cheers - Samir How much failure is too much. You said Failures are stepping stones for success. But then too many failures become at times the bottleneck for next level of growth. So where according to you one should draw a line that this is it and call it a quit before failure becomes a habit.

Cheers
- Samir

]]> By: AjiNIMC http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-90365 AjiNIMC Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:38:19 +0000 http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-90365 Thanks, thats a good point. As human (if sincere and passionate about the doing) we always try for success but failure comes in as unexpected add-on and often discourage us from next attempt. So when we start accepting the fact that we will certainly fail at many instances and <b>ITS OK TO FAIL</b>, we start attempting more. Once a person said, "I don't know which attempt will make it successful but if I attempt 100 times i am sure to hit one big success". Many company does this, they make small teams and allow them to attempt individually and the one showing good progress/user-acceptance is given a push and the one which fails is destroyed under constructive destruction but never discouraged. The employee with 10 failures + 0 success is counted no lesser than who had 10 success + 0 failures, attempts are highly encouraged as the one with 0 success might give you the biggest success ... so keep trying, keep failing .. success can't be too far off. Thanks, thats a good point. As human (if sincere and passionate about the doing) we always try for success but failure comes in as unexpected add-on and often discourage us from next attempt. So when we start accepting the fact that we will certainly fail at many instances and ITS OK TO FAIL, we start attempting more. Once a person said, “I don’t know which attempt will make it successful but if I attempt 100 times i am sure to hit one big success”. Many company does this, they make small teams and allow them to attempt individually and the one showing good progress/user-acceptance is given a push and the one which fails is destroyed under constructive destruction but never discouraged. The employee with 10 failures + 0 success is counted no lesser than who had 10 success + 0 failures, attempts are highly encouraged as the one with 0 success might give you the biggest success … so keep trying, keep failing .. success can’t be too far off.

]]> By: Debashis http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-89780 Debashis Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:43:08 +0000 http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/fail-more-often/#comment-89780 Hi Aji, As per your suggestion people have already started failing :) but I don't know what's their intention. It should be like, try hard to reach success, and if fails at last, no problem. Failures are pillar of success. But 100% effort should be there to succeed. Thanks, Debashis Hi Aji,

As per your suggestion people have already started failing :) but I don’t know what’s their intention. It should be like, try hard to reach success, and if fails at last, no problem. Failures are pillar of success. But 100% effort should be there to succeed.

Thanks,
Debashis

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