Failure is not the end. Most people view it as means to give up, that they are not good enough at whatever they fail at. That statement is just incorrect. You can do anything you put your mind to. Nothing stands between you and success.

Failure is Inevitable

As humans, we hate this thought. We base success on perfection. We look at the failures on the way to success as setbacks and are embarrassed by them. It is crucial to cast away these thoughts. Failure is inevitable, everyone fails thousands of times in their life. Getting up from these failures, learning from them, and pushing forward are all means to success.

Failure is a Step Towards Success

Failure is not a step back. Failure is a lunge forward. Like everything you know, you know what it is and what it is not. Look at failure the same way. To know what success is and how to obtain it we must know what it is not. It is just like solving a math problem; when you go through all the steps of the problem and come out with a wrong answer, you don’t just give up. You look back at your work and look what you have done wrong, learn from it and try the problem a different way. That is what failure is, a learning experience to find out what success is not, to point you closer and towards success.

Failure Shows Your True Strength

Failure may be a leap towards success, but that does not mean that it is not frustrating. Failure is one of the most frustrating aspects of life. We must keep in mind that we are all distinct, diverse, and not one of us thinks or acts exactly the same way. We all learn differently, and it takes us all a different amount of time to learn. That being said, strength is how many times you get up after being knocked down by failure. It may take you three tries or ten tries to reach success. Even if you are knocked down one hundred times, you continue reaching for success. Not only will the satisfaction of success be more rewarding, but think of how much you will have learned all those hundred tries.

As a society and individuals, we must stop thinking that failure is bad and is the means of unsuccessful people. Failure is the ultimate teacher, it teaches us determination, strength, how to learn more fluently, and most of all success.

As one of the best writers of all time JK Rowling says “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”