Someone suggested that the word 'failure' should be removed from the English dictionary and 'feedback' used instead. This would create a positive cycle of learning and improvement.
Despite many maxims, quotes and anecdotes promulgating the virtues of failing and learning from it, failure cannot shed its implicit negative connotation. Branding something as a failure psychologically dents the confidence of an individual.
No wonder Edison quipped 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work'.
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That is a very good point. In fact, people do not understand the virtue of failing. I am open to it... I mean, it comes to me openly anyway :-) But when you fail, you let go of all the ego and start learning because of it. Success should become the next swear word!
Destination Infinity
We may be at ease when giving feedback to others, but mostly defensive when given feedback by others. The feedback culture would work best in an open minded society. The question is: Are we open minded?
"Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
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