Why is it easy to fail than to succeed?

@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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@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
2 Apr 10
Failure always leads to success. If you don't fail, you won't stand a chance to be successfull. That is the hardest lesson in life, but the best one of all. It teaches us to think and do what is best for oneself. TATA.
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Wow! A short one but is really has essence on the lines. I agree that failure will make someone stronger for more failures and eventually will know all things to survive and succeed!
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
4 Apr 10
Sorry, but i have to do this. I told you so. TATA.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Life!
@marvz023 (189)
• Philippines
2 Apr 10
we refer failures as success that didnt happen. we always have goals in life and acieving that goal is success. the rest are simply failure especially when that goal did not have the effore required for it to succeed
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
well, it's just like water that gets turned and turned that you don't know where to go. You get sucked in the whirlpool that you don't know where that goes to.
@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...
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
OH, so you're saying to look at your own track? yeah right, if you don't look forward to you own track then you could crash on your way to success. dedication, time, effort and opportunity it is.
@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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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, everything is unexpected. Things happen for a reason but as not what we liked it to happen. But lessons are learned from these unexpectedness. The best we could have from these are the way to expect more unexpected and learn more and more!
• 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.
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Well, if you really have all of those things then success is not far at hand, if luck permits that you will not fail.
• 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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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, nice. well you have the times when you really want that goal that failing once means that that goal is lost forever.
@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 .
@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?
• 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.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Luck really plays a big part in the pursuit to success. I hope the luck turns out good for all of us!
• 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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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Why would anyone want to achieve failure? Success really are hard-earned so we must keep on wanting it and doing what we could to achieve success.
@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.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Failure really teaches us how to run around obstacles. We sometimes have to hurdle those obstacles for us to have a good finish, even if not getting the highest prize. At least we finished the race with pride.
@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
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@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.
• 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.)
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@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Oh, that really happens in reality, more failures than success. Counting stones or pebbles are easier than counting sand right? Reality really hurts us a lot in the way to success. So the phrase should be, "Do and do until you succeed!"
@balasri (26537)
• India
9 May 10
Because success is for the toughest and focused ones.Even the Gods favors the winners.So to be successful one does have resilience.Failure may may to to the lack of enough effort.If one puts the right amount of effort on whoever he does he stands not to fail.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
9 May 10
Effort and dedication is the most important thing for doing a task so without it youj will surely fail, thanks for sharing your views balasri
@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.
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
5 Apr 10
failure works for us then to reach our goals. Having many failures sometimes damages self-confidence and self-esteem. Just have a positive view of everything and it will work out fine.
@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!
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
9 May 10
Yes, thanks for being here, eileen and maxyl. Failures make us hard enough to strive and improve our performances on previous failures...
@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.
@yresh12 (3212)
• Philippines
2 Apr 10
Easy to fail? that's sounds pretty hard. Easy to fail because that's not your goal at all. You do so much, you strive hard. That's why reaching goals makes us feel that is pretty difficult, when all along it was actually the same thing..
@basqui (3888)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
good one, people are just not contented with what they have that they don't realize they are already winners. They just want to get the whole of the pie but all along they could not eat it all, they want to share.
@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.
@yresh12 (3212)
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
Yeah... We are all focus on going to the top that we forgot that we can also go down. Two options are open and it's up to us which one we would like to choose...
@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.