People in Projects

The Ability to Not Fear Failure

We all fail at things—all the time. It’s natural and expected; it is the way we learn. You couldn’t walk the first time you tried. When we were very young, we simply got up, dusted ourselves off, and tried again until we mastered our goal. But something happened to some of us as we “matured.” We began to fear failing and therefore shunned opportunities that we believed increased our chances of failing.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

—John Keats

You see, life is full of paradoxes. The person who is no stranger to failure is often the person who is most likely to succeed. Every failure offers a lesson and ...