Mohammad Hanief
Failure is only the end if you don’t learn from it. Success is a process that involves making mistakes and learning from them. The ability to pick yourself up after a failure and continue moving towards your goal is what separates successful people from those who never achieve their dreams.
The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations we face as a society.
Living within our environmental limits is one of the central principles of sustainable development. One implication of not doing so is climate change. But the focus of sustainable development is far broader than just the environment. It’s also about ensuring a strong, healthy and just society. This means meeting the diverse needs of all people in existing and future communities, promoting personal wellbeing, social cohesion and inclusion, and creating equal opportunity.
Failure may feel uncomfortable or seem like a personal or professional setback, but it actually can help you succeed through growth and opportunities to try again. While it’s challenging, failure in the workplace is often inevitable, whether it comes as a missed deadline, a calculation error or an interview without a job offer. Knowing how to accept and appreciate failure can help you use it as a learning opportunity that can lead to future success.
If the definition of failure is not achieving a goal, then does meeting a goal equal success? To some extent, yes. But that definition feels too confining. Success is psychologically bigger than goal achievement itself. And importantly, it is possible to feel like a successful person even in the face of failure.
Success and values
From this point of view, success would be responding appropriately to our calling in life. In other words, success is not just about acquiring a lot of money. Instead, success is about living according to one’s values. Some people consider a successful life one in which they feel comfortable and have sufficient time, money, and health to engage in activities that they enjoy.
For others, success is being independent and able to fend for themselves, to have overcome difficulties they considered insurmountable or to grow in wisdom and maturity.
If one of your core values is to have a lot of money, then yes, a booming bank account will be a clear indication that you are on the right track and will surely make you feel good. If you feel your calling is to be an important person, someone who is remembered in history books (for the right reasons), you probably will not feel successful unless you live long enough to see humanity enjoying your contribution or until you receive explicit recognition for your achievements.
On the contrary, if your values are more family-oriented or based on growing as a person, then your personal success will be harder to measure in a concrete way, but not any less intense or significant.
Knowing how to measure your idea of success is important because it greatly influences your self-esteem, your future plans, and ultimately, your sense of personal fulfillment. In fact, taking the time to reflect on all of these is an important process that facilitates self-understanding.
Success may mean different things to different people. No matter what your idea of success is, finding out the secret to success may help you live a personally and professionally fulfilling life. For that, it is beneficial to figure out how to be successful and also be willing to put in the effort.
In every culture, community, and group, a cluster of attributes and properties is highly valued for a variety of historical, economic, and social reasons–the manifestation of particular interpersonal traits, the possession of specific material resources, and the holding of certain social positions.
Individuals who inherit and achieve these socially valued attributes are awarded respect, standing, and recognition in their communities. They accrue power, formal and informal influence, and generally benefit from their superior positions in diverse ways, including longevity, comfort, and social structural opportunities for their offspring.
The issues surrounding the identification and understanding of the “successful’ community member are critical to work in the different social sciences, and various concepts are used to describe the processes by which individuals negotiate and master their environments. They include “social adjustment,” “adaptation,” “achievement,” and “social mobility.” The cumulative effort at theory development and the accompanying empirical research is truly voluminous and literally defies synthesis and integration.
Diversity in ideological, conceptual, and methodological commitments of investigators is related to the variety of views and ambiguity of findings on the importance of different personal, interpersonal, and social attributes in identifying successful and unsuccessful community members, and on specifying the importance of different determinants of success and failure.
Failure may feel uncomfortable or seem like a personal or professional setback, but it actually can help you succeed through growth and opportunities to try again. While it’s challenging, failure in the workplace is often inevitable, whether it comes as a missed deadline, a calculation error or an interview without a job offer. Knowing how to accept and appreciate failure can help you use it as a learning opportunity that can lead to future success.
While failure and success are natural parts of your personal and professional life, acknowledging the feelings associated with each is an important step in gaining emotional intelligence and the ability to recognize the impact success and failure can have. As you mature in life and your career, it’s likely your personal definitions of success and failure change. Depending on your goals and career aspirations, you might experience both failures and successes.
Mistakes and failures are inevitable in life. Although, one can achieve success by trying and failing many times. Learn from your previous failures and try to put that learning into practice. Re-examine what went wrong to understand where you have to improve. Try to gain the necessary skills, knowledge or tools to avoid pitfalls in the future. Keep reviewing your progress at regular intervals and try to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
