While you are in your 20s, there are so many times you may feel that you have failed at something or something didn’t work out as you expected it to. In these times, it can be easy to feel like it’s the end of the world. This can also bring in additional feelings like:
- You aren’t good enough.
- You are good for nothing.
- Nothing else you try will work out.
- You should give up altogether and stick to what you know.
This mindset can make it difficult to bounce back whenever things don’t go as planned. Often you might be paralyzed by the fear of:
- Making a wrong choice
- Failing again
My friendly advice to you in this case would be: worry not; get up & get going. Because success isn’t about not failing, but it lies in getting up each time you fail.
I want you to remember one thing:
The best time to fail is in your 20s. It’s because the fall isn’t really that hard, and getting up (bouncing back) isn’t costly.
Lessons on failure from history
If Thomas Edison had believed in failure, we may still be living in darkness. If Henry Ford had given up, we may still be riding on horseback.
The bottom line is: anyone who has achieved anything great, anyone who has changed the world, has, at some point, made a choice to embrace failure instead of fighting it.
A few words from great minds
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” - Confucius
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” - Dale Carnegie
“Failure is success if we learn from it.” - Malcolm Forbes