I
love what Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos once said:
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret
that,
but I knew the one thing I might regret is not
trying
I feel compelled with this thought of
Failing and trying as we are at the threshold of new academic year after our
exam results. I feel it’s the right time and high time we give it a thought as
our children wait eagerly to face the outcome of their efforts.
April
and May are the season of exams at
school level and commencing of exams at the college and University levels. This
year, having NEET at hand, TNSPC and other competitive exams approaching quickly,
while Tenth, Twelfth and eleventh students awaiting their results in few weeks,
all that we could hear is SUCCESS or FAILURE.
Every
School and University, even every individual coaching centre has taken the
glorious task of preparing our younger generation HOW TO OVERCOME THE STRESS OF
EXAMS?
Is
there anyone teaching our kids HOW TO FACE SUCCESS or FAILURE in life?
Our
children are to be taught the consequences of SUCCESS and FAILURE.
Our
children need to know that success is only momentary and if
they really want to be successful, they need to be constantly dissatisfied with
their success and move from GOOD to BETTER and then towards BEST.
Our
children should realize that they can’t bask in the glory of the past.
If
Success is so critical, imagine how much more we need to prepare our children
for FAILURE. We need to make our children realize that SUCCESS and FAILURE are
not opposites but two outcomes of the same process.
There
is WISDOM in both and we need to prepare our children to Fail successfully.
I
would like to quote the inspirational words of John C. Maxwell, the great
inspirational author.
“FAIL EARLY, FAIL OFTEN, BUT ALWAYS
FAIL FORWARD”
The only way to make failure useful is
to learn from it.
Rise
above any resistance you may meet at the course of your dream. Keep your eyes
on your dreams. Life tests the big dreamers – the passionate revolutionaries.
Succeed;
then move from Good to Best.
Let’s
fail forward and learn wisdom out of it and reach our dreams.
May
I take this opportunity to wish all of you a wonderful start in the upcoming
academic year irrespective of the outcomes SUCCESS or FAILURE and grasp the
available opportunities.
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