28th October 2025
Have you ever asked yourself what you would attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Failure is scary, but if we are not attempting great things, amazing things stop happening. By embracing failure, amazing things become possible.
In my experience with failure, both personally and professionally, I have seen that the more we are scared of failure, the more power it has over us and stops us from trying new things.
And trying new things and making bold moves is what can lead to the greatest successes.
So, we have a choice to make.
Do we live life small, fearing that failure could be around the corner waiting for us? Or do we take chances, risk failure and dare to live a life beyond our wildest dreams?
A wonderful book to read on the subject is ‘Dare to fail’ by Billi Lim.
He has given various tips to face the failures and go ahead without loosing hope.
A statement that really resonated with me was, “The calm which puts us to sleep, is more fatal than the storm which keeps us awake. Nothing worthwhile is achieved without a struggle, other wise every body will achieve it, if it is so easy.”
No better words on failure were ever spoken, than the J.K. Rowling speech at Harvard in 2008, speaking about the benefits of failure, and how she dealt with them in her own journey from living the life of a young divorced mother near poverty to becoming the creator of the Harry Potter series of books that have sold more than 400 million copies, earned her over a billion dollars and created the opportunity for her to do what she was born to do.
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? She asked. “Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
If you have ever failed in life, and recovered, you will clearly understand what Rowling says in this lecture.
Hence, don’t be afraid of Failure, don’t allow failure to define you, it has far more to teach us than success could.
Dare to fail, learn from it, succeed and stay blessed forever.