Why is it easy to fail than to succeed?
By basqui
@basqui (3888)
Philippines
April 2, 2010 4:23am CST
Why is it that it is easier to fail in everything you do than to succeed? I have many jobs and chores before that were failures due to many instances and I seldom had success. Had this occurred or happened to you too? Why are goals hard to reach that not?
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@machivado (528)
• Indonesia
2 Apr 10
It's because we put our minds at the wrong tracks...it takes dedication, time, effort, and opportunity to make it happens...Sometimes I feel that my failures are caused because I didn't want that goal in the first place...
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
2 Apr 10
Well, i feel its not easy to fail or succeed too..I can say, we can easily expect and go unexpected easily. May be failing is easy which we can achieve without working hard, but even efforts go fail to succeed. I feel unexpected are easily achieved.
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@amdatar (4)
• India
2 Apr 10
success requires lot of hard work, patience, luck as well.
if u work hard, keep cool but if luck is not supporting u, then its of no use.
many of the times, we dont work good, patience is our enemy then we fail.
seldomly it happens that all these factors favour us. so seldomly we succeed.
@EmilSpasov (152)
• Bulgaria
2 Apr 10
no human is a stranger to mistakes
sometimes you feel like failing when something you decided must happen exactly the way you think it should just doesn't happen
but still it may not be a failure
it's all matter of point of view and how you accept yourseslf and your actions
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
2 Apr 10
I always heard practice makes perfect. Maybe u are taking on too much at one time. I'd rather to one right than do a bunch wrong .
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
But, no one is perfect? So why practice? just kidding!
Well, kidding aside, wanting to have lots could be poisoning really. Biting more than you could chew might get you choked, and die.
So in the process of wanting to achieve a lot, you will really have the time of failures and that could be a lot of failures that could ruin your self-esteem.
@syankee525 (6261)
• United States
2 Apr 10
with jobs, once i learned when you work you work. im not there to make friends. and also my brother in law gave me the best adavnce about work. you learn whatever can be learn, if they want to teach you be taught.
but i think its because when we dont reach our gaols we give up. but instead of us keep trying and trying.
like with me some say i failed as a songwriter since i have been at for 15 yrs and nothing yet. but because i am always looking and trying i havent failed yet. i keep trying and looking for new things to help me out.
we only fail when we give up
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, so you mean that there are really no failures if everyone is striving to succeed? that's good, giving up in a marathon doesn't really help in having a trophy. Run until the end, even if you don't get the First prize, you might get a consolation prize, it's better than nothing right?
@MartiniMan (76)
• Portugal
2 Apr 10
It happened to me a lot and will happen more as long as i live, because for everything we do, society in general, has a very high standards that some people cant reach, or dont have the luck suceceed. In such a competitive world we are living, i believe that luck is the most important factor now, after that, do your "homework" well so you are very prepared to face everything, and keep inovating, be vigilant to everything that surrounds you so you can be one step ahed.
@ramaswamyvtkv (2879)
• India
2 Apr 10
failure is easy to acheive but sucess is the result of dedication and hardwork so its difficult to get success
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
2 Apr 10
It does seem so much easier to fail than to succeed. Failing takes no effort, no skill or any pride in yourself. Failing is giving up. Anyone can can do that. Succeeding at something is an accomplishment to take pride in. Of course we csn not succeed in everything we do. We have to at least try. Then if we don't succeed, it will not be completely a failure on our part.
@avani26 (1518)
• India
2 Apr 10
It is easier to fail because you do not need to put in any effort for achieving failure but to succeed to have to put in lots of effort. I believe that Failure is failure only when we fail to get the learning.
I would like to mention a quote from Barrack Obama.
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't, its whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you chose to persevere.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, no one really wants any effort in achieving failure. i haven't known anyone who wants to achieve failure?
Obama really talked here huh?, His words are right, no road to success is all is smooth, all have bends and curves, and roughs and detours. We just have to know how to overcome these things in order to arrive to the desired goal.
@setsuna26 (2751)
• Philippines
2 Apr 10
In everything we do if we dont exert any effort at all tendency is we fail, and if we strive harder theres a good chance that we will succeed. Thats just about it, if lie someone whose pretty much determined succeeds in most of his/her endeavors but if you just let things unfold without you making an effort out of it then you will relatively fail. Thats why its pretty much easier to fail than that of to succeed. The big difference is effort and perseverance
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, well said, another essence of success : effort and perseverance. Those who really don't want to climb the mountain of success won't reach the peak, they will just be there of the base of the mountain. Maybe waiting for the peak to come crashing down at them and crushing the dreams they have.
@mogtendo64 (171)
• United States
2 Apr 10
Failing seems to be a lot easier than succeeding because we often count our failures a lot more than our successes at times.
Not to mention failures tend to build up a lot more than successes do. Just gotta keep doing and do your best (and note that I didn't say try, just do it.)
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
5 Apr 10
we fail if we will not work well with what we aim for. and that is the only thing we have to do to reach our goal and succeed, work for it.
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
17 Apr 10
It is easy to fail because you are counting your failures and not your successes. Turn it the other way and you would see that you are really a success. Each day counts!
@maxyl12 (236)
• Philippines
9 May 10
in my point of view... failure.. does not mean ur not succesful... its just all in the mind..maybe because we just need more patience. or be more practical... many success story comes from a failure start.. like HAMPHRY DAVY, before he succeed to make a one light bulb works.. he fails maybe a thousand.. but have one worked.. and look were are we now because of his invantion...
@hexeduser22 (7419)
• Philippines
6 Apr 10
In this busy world of ours we tend to be distracted more often thus resulting in failures. It's easy to get distracted than to concentrate and focus on one goal. Most of the people who were very successful because they have been concentrating in one goal all their life. Success doesn't mean the more wealth you have the more successful you are. Success may come in any form like success in conveying your thoughts into art or poetry and etc. Focus and take things step by step or one at a time then you'll be successful in any way
Come to think of it may be I should use my own advice
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
7 Apr 10
Yeah, most people wants almost all that they could have. Leaving the chances of success. If they just learn to achieve one goal at a time then they would have more of it.
arts and poetry? hmm.. not my kind. I prefer music. Me and my band had many songs that we wrote but haven't sold it yet.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
i mean they don't want to share on the comment above. yes, expect to have all the fruits up in the apple tree but doesn't want to climb. some apples may fall from the tree but it will not be fresh anymore. some climb the tree and fall off from doing so. the next time they climb,they are now cautious so as not to fall again.
@netcoder (275)
• Philippines
9 Apr 10
maybe because we need to know a lot of it first thats why we keep in failing so that once we achieved it we already a lot or everything about it. sometimes failure will give us lesson for us to know our weaknesses though it doesnt mean that we will never achieved nor be successful with it.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
9 Apr 10
Yeah, goals sometimes are new to us and the ways of achieving it is really not the usual taken path to success so we fail. But in the process of failing, you are right there that we learn lessons that we could use to be successful in the next attempt for that goal.