In Praise of Failure

Learning to love failure is the only way to live a happy life...

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Education

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• failure
• perfectionism
• death
• cancer
• illness

[sakasajinei]

Thank you! Some of this really hit home, what you said is true. I was constantly looking for something permanent by clinging onto those tiny successes in life that have come and gone, without really ENJOYING the journey. I'll do my best next time and I won't care what others think, but by simply enjoying what I do should be more rewarding to me than success or failure. You're a genius. I love this video!

[stefbot]

Thanks for your kind words, very happy to have been of help! :)

[Nickelodeon2002]

Great video Mr. Molyneux

I loved hearing this message, it is like a breath of fresh air for me.

[stefbot]

Thank you so much, and to everyone who has this video so helpful!

[ks100001]

Don't sweat it, I'm 31 and still have absolutely no idea what I want to do when I grow up.

:)

[newperve]

Failure is a sign that your ambition is at least high enough. If you never fail it is because you're not trying things that are a challenge to your abilities. Einstein would never have failed if he kept to his job as a patent clerk, which would be a far greater failure in reality than his failure to make a unified field theory.

[tremault]

every time somebody closes a door on me, I have had an unmitigated success in learning how to do things so much better, and also in getting them to listen up 'til that point. and every person that i talk to for longer than a millisecond is a success in spreading the word about what I do.

there is no failure in my life, just different degrees and forms of success.

[tremault]

the concept is a very good one, and everything you say is very true, but your perspective is to me a rather negative one that could be shifted in another way to be a far more positive one.

I don't fail 99% of the time. I don't fail 50% of the time, I fail 0% of the time. I succeed every second. I succeed in being me all of the time. I succeed in every decision i make. I succeed in practising towards everything i do up until the moment i decide not to do it any more.

[bittersweetkark]

thank you

[rneovv]

do you think embracing failure is like embracing chaos - disorder, unpredictability.

embarrassment is sometimes called a fear of the unknown.

[rnevv]

i think,

society teaches us to fear failure above all: perform at 100% in school, don't be embarrassing or else... be punished, be ostracized.

that we have to control all reactions.

as if we could.

you are right, stefbot, we can't control all.

we have to let go of control or become absurd.

we fear chaos - being out of control.

but is chaos natural?

i don't think children are as fearful. that their fear is forced.

am i right/wrong? i want to see. i'm not scared to write.

[KvalnirFox]

Great video. Failure and success are different sides of the same coin, you cannot have the one without the another. They melt into one entity which we call life and disappear as mere consepts, words they fade away. What is left is happiness.

[USER1046]

@killyrboyfriend really? how are you doing now?

[Valelacerte]

This video is behaving in an odd way: the audio is fine but the visual has a stuttering frame rate. I've checked it in Firefox and Chrome and get the same effect; I've noticed this with a few videos on YouTube that are a year or two old. Anyone else getting this?

[imcrazy85]

ahaha when u said FAILURE i panicked for a split second lmao