Failure as an option

” In Real life , you have to encourage people to fail. If you want to help the planet , create an environment for people to fail “

 stated Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Acclaimed  Risk Analyst, in his keynote  speech at ET NOW few days back. This statement has been made in the context of making India as “Enterpreneurial Hub”(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fuUEESLKwM). These lines lured me that I couldn’t stop thinking about how true and obvious the fact is !

There is a stigma that prevails about failures. Every failure, breaks the  confidence that one builds with much invested efforts . Once that is shaken , the society has to play a crucial role to develop a robust healthy ecosystem.In the words of former president late Dr. APJ .Abdulkalam , it is the confidence that India needs… (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seve1_ZyqNc)

Since Childhood , we have been brought up in  a way that only success is respected and failure goes unrecognized . Still, the world justifies Karna for his failure , admires Napoleon , visualizes Alexander as the GREAT . You would be surprised to know that what we perceive as success today will be seen as a failure from the eyes of future…To cite an example , Atom is no more composed of just Proton , Electron , Neutron… It’s much more… As we evolve , our past is nothing but a post of failures ! Now the question is , what if we haven’t let those failures to happen ???

If every individual is involved in finding a meaning for their Failures in one way or the other – we would have all the solutions to earthly problems …Hope transcends ! Fear Dissipates !

Failure is not the end result of evaluation but a byproduct of an essential evolution !