Day 123 (A Hundred & Twenty-Three) of 365 days
There is a common misconception that getting defeated is a bad thing. Many people who fail at something are often called losers, but if those people learn from their losses, they are winners. Defeats teach people that they are just like everybody else and that success is gained from hard work and determination.
When people get defeated at something important in their lives and decide to try again, they tend to regain their confidence and persist with great resilience. Many of the best lessons I’ve learned in life come from the mistakes I have made and the knowledge I’ve gained from these mistakes.
People often go into relationships knowing very little about one another. This sometimes leads to disappointment when their relationship progresses and their true traits surface. One person may comment on a subject and unintentionally hurt the other's feelings. This situation could have been avoided had they taken more time to get to know each other. Many people spend a lot of time in relationships that do not lead anywhere because they neglect the things that matter in making a relationship significant. When the relationship ends, the people involved are often bitter and feel that they have wasted their time, but they have learned one of life's greatest lessons.
Defeat has evolved as a way for people to learn from their mistakes. Being defeated is a mechanism created to force people into figuring out where they went wrong and then striving to succeed the next time they are faced with such a dilemma. No one can win every time, and if we can learn to accept our mistakes and move on, we will also realize how strong we truly are.
You learn more from defeat than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character." If someone would have asked me some years ago what the definition of motivation is, I wouldn't have the answer because I didn't know. Individuals need to embrace the realization that taking risks and failing are often the essential moves necessary to bring clarity, understanding, and innovation. By making a mistake, we are led to the pivotal question: "Why was that wrong?" By answering this question, we are intentionally placing ourselves in a position to develop new insight and to eventually succeed.
The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
