How to deal with Failure?

Every one of us goes through failures. But one must know how to deal with failure. This is an important part of success because dealing with failure and learning something from it is called intelligence. How to deal with failure? Let's first focus on the human mind and what type of mindset is necessary to deal with failure.

What will you learn from the article:-

1. What is Fixed Mindset.

2. What is Growth Mindset.

3. How to deal with failure.

There are people with 2 types of mindsets, Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset.

Let's talk about both of these mindsets and know which one is important to develop the resilience to deal with failure.

*FIXED MINDSET 

The Fixed Mindset is when someone thinks their abilities are a fixed trait and cannot be changed. People with this type of mindset never grow in their lives, because they think that they are limited in every sense. They never try new things or never take on any challenges because their mind is always fixed on whatever they are.

You may have met many people with a fixed mindset unknowingly. To identify the people with a fixed mindset, you will see that no matter how much we tell them that the thing they believe in is false, they don't admit it.

This is what a fixed mindset is. It is a broad topic, but we cannot talk about it here. So we will just know about the part of this that relates to success and failure.

So, when a person with a fixed mindset fails on something, they just think that this is not made for them and they can't learn it. They don't learn from failure and tend to give up easily thinking that this particular task is not made for them. 

*GROWTH MINDSET

A person with a Growth Mindset is someone who knows that they are not limited to whatever they are now. They always take on challenges and learn new things and keep growing. They know that they can learn anything they put their mind to and that is true because no one is limited, it is their mindset that is limited.

A person with a Fixed mindset will say that "I am either good at it or bad at it." but a person with a Growth Mindset knows that "I am good at it or I can be good at it." The development of any of these mindsets starts from childhood. But it does not mean that nothing can be done now because developing a Growth Mindset is itself a trait of a Growth Mindset.

Then, How to deal with failure?

If you want to learn how to deal with failure, the first step is to develop your mindset and turn it into a growth mindset. See every failure as an opportunity to learn something and improve your progress. 

You need to figure out what is the failure that hit you trying to teach you. if you want to deal with failure, learn to learn from the failure. You need to keep an open mind and let the lessons of the failure come inside your head and teach you something. 

A good mindset is the start of everything. To achieve something, you first need to have a strong mindset because nothing is easy in this life and that's the truth. Becoming rich is hard and staying poor is hard. There are failures along the way which are inevitable. So, you need to have a strong mindset to deal with failures, critics, and hatred.

You should feed your mind healthy food. Consume healthy knowledge, build healthy habits and never think of what people say about you because if you never came out of the fear that what will people think, you will suffer a lot and miss a lot of opportunities. Many people fail and give up not because they think it's hard but because they think that society will criticize them and call them "Losers". It is a sign of a Fixed Mindset. And I call it the 'Loser Mindset'.

You should know that you and not a loser if you fail, you are a loser if you give up on your dreams just because the people around you do not like your vision. There is a famous speech by Steve Harvey in which he tells that people will shut down your imagination when you tell them about it and that's because they can't see your vision. Why did they not see it? Because God ain't showed it to them. He showed it to you. 

Keep the doors of your mind open every time and seek opportunities to learn from everything because each and every thing and person around us teaches us something. You can learn what to do from some people and you can learn what not to do from some people. Understanding this difference is the main part. Similarly, every failure teaches you something. It will teach you what not to do next time. Failure is nothing but just a teacher who tells you what mistake you made last time. A failure does not stop life but giving up does.

When you fail, just sit down and close your eyes. Accept that you failed and don't complain about it. Just accept it and see what went wrong. Analyze your preparation and learn about what you did not do. Did you not give your 100 percent or did you miss some part?

If you missed something last time, learn it now and try again. Don't blame anything and take responsibility for whatever has happened and what is going to happen. Correct your mistakes and go again and try again.

If you fail, congratulations you at least tried. Most people don't even try anything. You tried and failed because you have started to build a Growth Mindset. You are not a loser if you failed at something. You need to analyze why you failed and what needs to be fixed and fix it. View the failure as an opportunity to learn and grow.

"Success comes after hundreds of failures because failure is not the opposite of success, it is a part of it."

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