Failure vs Success.
April 21, 2016
Hehehehe first
of all helloooo *tiup tiup habuk blog*. I’ve been extremely busy lately, well,
quite, yeah. Uhm actually there are a lot of things going on and I have to
concentrate and prioritize them over soo I guess that explains why I haven’t
post in a while.
So today (I finished
my class early and I had nothing to do (yet) and I have silat training at 8pm
which now is 5 soo I wanna write something hehe) I wanna talk about failure and
success. I don’t know why I chose this topic haha but uhm maye bcs I feel like I
have something to write about?
Okayh, let’s get
serious.
To be frank, the
level of excellence in my uni years is not as great as during my school years. And
bcs of this, I kept comparing my effort then and now, finding, searching what is
the factor of why I’m not like before. I feel like I’m not as hardworking as
before. But I know uni years is where I need to be hardworking even more. But somehow,
I feel like not driven to it. I feel like, not motivated.
Yeah, I feel not
motivated.
To get that
motivated mood on, I used to scroll Youtube to find any motivational videos but
still didn’t help me at all.
But somehow
yesterday, when I was scrolling Youtube, searching of what song I wanna listen
to, I found this one video abt success and failure. The title is ‘Motivation to
Study’, the channel is Logan Wallace. The video wasn’t really great, the
animation etc etc were not that good, but the message in the video that made me
moved. And after that video I realized what makes me differ from my school
years.
The fear of
failure and the love of success.
To be honest,
after I got my MARA sponsorship, I got scared of all the requirements that I need
to pass in order to study abroad, in order to get discount when I wanna pay
back after I graduate. I got scared, I got scared of the failure that maybe I can’t
get to study abroad, that maybe if I can’t sudy abroad my parents would be sad
of me, etc etc etc. And I become perplexed with those ‘scared’ feeling.
This is the fear
of failure.
If compared to
during my school years, I was excel in everything. Well, not really in
everything, but I felt satisfied in everything I did, even though some of them
didn’t really hit the targets. I excelled in my studies, sports, relationships
with my teachers, with my friends, with the school itself. My confidence in
studies driven me even more to succeed. My passion in sports led me to train
even more with my teammates. My love for the teachers thrust me to go staffroom
more often to ask questions to just pass by to say hello to help them with
anything I can.
That is the love
of success.
But none of that
happening to me now. None of that happened to me now.
But the video I watched
yesterday made me realize that, if we’re too afraid of failure, we will be
haunted by it. Most of people thought that the fear of failure would lead to
success, because they thought that fear would make us avoid it, prevent it from
happening, prohibit it from happening. But actually it is not. It is actually
the love of success that would keep us succeed.
An analogy given
in the video was an old man walked on the street. He looked unfit to walk
across the street bcs he was too old. But still, he kept walking, and then he
fell down. And one man helped him, and said to him that he should just stay
inside his house bcs it is dangerous for the old man to go outside.
But then the old
man replied him, “I love walking, and I love walking way more than I’m afraid
of falling. If I’m afraid too much of falling down, I would maybe just stay
inside my house for years and not coming out at all. I won’t move, I won’t do
anything, but to afraid.”
Do you
understand the analogy? If the old man was too scared of falling, would he even
start walking? He even would not do what he loved to do. He would just sit at
home and take no action, but he loved walking. He wasn’t even scared to fall. It
gave him life, that’s what allowed him to get up and do it. If we become too
scared of failure, we will not make any move to get closer to success. If we
become too scared of failure, we will always get haunted, get bothered abt it. But
if we love success, it will drive us to get closer to it.
You might
believe, if you’re scared to fail, you won’t fail. It is the biggest lie ever.
I somehow
thought that being scared to fail in life would literally keep me from failing.
I always thought that if I just fear the act of failing and if I scared of it
like crazy, I will succeed. Bcs I thought that fear would magically motivate me
to get out there and start taking action.
But after
watched that video, I realized something, the true key to success is the love
for it, it is the love for success that will lead me to succeeding. We have to
love success just as much bcs that’s what gonna allow us to get up and go for
it. Being scared to fail won’t do anything. We have to love success so much
that we’re willing to fail ten times before we can succeed once.
I give another example.
If Michael Jordan (basketball star) was scared of missing, he would have never
taken the shot. If Steve Jobs (Apple founder) was afraid of people not liking
his product, there would be no iPhone haha. So the thing is, if you’re sooooo
afraid of failure, it would never help us to succeed, it would never help us to
avoid failure.
So guysss ^^, we
have to love for success yeh, not fear for failure ^^ ^^.
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