There is a common recommendation that dreams and objectives should not be given up. The key to achieve success, according to the popular belief, is to continue trying until one day such dreams or objectives will come to fruition. The key seems to be perseverance and self-confidence.
There is an extensive amount of well-documented instances where the above formula has worked. Numerous people have pursued a dream tirelessly until said dream materializes, in the shape and form that they originally envisioned. And that is the ultimate success story that a person can achieve.
Nonetheless, there are also well documented instances where an individual pursues a dream, and does not ultimately achieve the results that they sought. Or the results represent only a partial fruition of their original pursuit. Is this, then, the definition of failure?
Before coming to conclusions, it may be important to reflect on the concepts of success and failure. Seen from a very general view, both terms would appear to be the exact complete opposites: Success is the achievement of an objective, failure is the lack of said achievement, despite of our best attempts to reach our desired result. Simple enough, right?
Said conclusion, in principle, would be correct. But if we were able to look at the anatomy of success through a microscope, it would become evident that the fabric of success is in fact made up of smaller successes and smaller failures. Rarely it is possible to reach success in a straightforward, smooth, linear manner. Generally speaking, endeavours collect some successes and some failures along the way. What is important is to see the larger scheme of things to understand whether our enterprise is heading towards a positive outcome, or an undesired one. Or even more intriguingly, whether it is heading towards unexpected, yet positive results.
In order to evaluate whether our projects and objectives are heading towards a desirable outcome, we must proverbially look at the forest, not at the tree. We should understand that sometimes, even when there are individual failures, they should not necessarily be the end of our work towards our objectives. But it is also humble and smart to realize that when failures start accumulating, and the overall trajectory of our endeavours seem to be going unfavourably, there’s nothing wrong with accepting the result and moving on towards other projects that may yield better outcomes.
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