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Why should one learn from the success and failure stories? How it helps excel in career?


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RE: Why should one learn from the success and failure stories? How it helps excel in career?

Avadhut Desai
Avadhut Desai
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Career Counselor / President at Foresight Foundation
  • Kolhapur

People do succeed leaving behind a trail of trial and errors. So far as we know, everyone needs to learn from his or her own mistakes to go ahead to achieve the final goals.  The success stories make the impacts and impress the things positively while the failure stories have their own impact in another way letting you have a lesson so as to correct your path accordingly and to make sure the old mistakes will not happen once again.

Getting Succeeded Is A Process

Success is not a one-time event as it may be seen by others as a one-time achievement, it is a process which consists of many setbacks, many up and downs and a chain of small goals to be achieved. Every process runs through different small processes having their specific targets to be achieved. In career life too, students or aspirants set their targets to be achieved and starts their process of goal achievement. You have to set, in your career, the short term goals to achieve a bigger one. The chain of short-term goals in between makes your journey toward success more convenient as it helps relieve the stress due to your final set target. Let’s say you are inspired by a career goal becoming a software engineer at Microsoft or Google, etc. Becoming a Software Engineer at such big MNCs requires many skills to be inculcated and improving yourself fit for the role/position. You are required to be well versed in your academic knowledge and the professional skills too. For enriching skills, desired for the job, you may need to learn skills and master the same. So there will be a connecting chain where the short term accomplishments would make to the bigger one and ease your entry into the MNCs like Microsoft and Goggle, etc. as a software Engineer.

Learn and Get Motivated From The Successes

Success stories motivate us and inspire to achieve more in our fields whatever they may be. Success stories show us the path and put in from of us the example how one can go ahead irrespective of the obstructions on the path. People who succeed in their respective fields have a message for others that inspire to reach the goal confidently. We often come across the whispers that someone would say why not he or she if someone else has done that previously. The achievers always show the path which others will follow or take as a guide to reach their own set targets.  I would say, always learn from the success stories and pick up the essence. You would be enough confident to walk on your own path as you will be having the successful examples in front of you. There will also be a caution also, as you no need to follow the exact path followed by the achiever but take as an example only. It is really true that successes inspire others to succeed.

Get Lessons From The Failures And Rectify Your Mistakes

It is a well-known fact that that failure often and always follows by success. Every struggler or career aspirant may go through some setbacks but the continuity in work or proposed task would ultimately pay with desired success. That’s why the every failure story has some message in it. Failures tell us what path should not be followed and reach the goal earlier. Trial and errors always would have important lessons for others as it makes the readymade guide to tell you what things are to be avoided while pursuing the career path. The others learn from the failures and avoid exactly what is to be to reach their desired targets. In the market, corporate houses create their own strategies studying intensively the current trends and also the failures as they need to form the fool-proof strategy which will turn out successful.

Learning is a process and you come across both types of stories that is successes and failures. The successes would inspire you positively but the failures will teach more important lessons. That’s why in my opinion, and others eminent personalities also spoke that the failures would teach you more than the successes. I end up this brief expression advising you that get motivation from the successes to go ahead and learn from the failures to reach your goal easily and you would excel in your career for sure.

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