Celebrating failures? Yes, you read it right. I am talking about celebrating failures, the session which I attended. During the session, the question in my mind was “Are we really talking about the failures or the inspiration behind the success?”
The only reason I wanted to attend this session was – It’s our own HR people who were sharing their experiences, and the host was an ex-HR. Hence, I decided to attend the session.
The host is very famous for his talk and his loud voice (He doesn’t need a microphone). Hence, it was obvious that the evening would be very interesting and exciting. The session started with some personal experiences of failures. It was very intriguing to listen to them as the way each speaker was articulating it, it sounded like a story.
“Failure stories” and how they inspired them achieve or set the goals to achieve something and take the best out of us was amazing. There were stories ranging from Appraisals to killing the product to firing stories to our ISRO stories. The way these stories were presented was very hilarious and I never thought that these small things will have huge impact.
I was carefully listening to all the stories but honestly, I did not get inspired as, while listening to them and their stories, my mind went back to the era of my struggling days.
I belong to a typical Marwari family – over-pampered and protected. I did not know what the difficulties or challenges or failures were in life. All I knew or grew up hearing was to master the art of cooking (I guess I did!)
Education was like a side dish – not very important. However, I was fortunate enough to have a good education, though I studied just for the sake of degree without any goal or purpose. You may wonder why I’m saying this, or if I’ve deviated from my topic.
No, am not deviating from the original topic. It’s again about the struggle and failure, the ups and downs I encountered and how I managed to overcome them. So for me, that was something big and I am appreciating myself. And I patted myself on my back that (Yes, I did something!). What I am today is because of the struggle which made me strong enough face any situation in life.
After getting back to home, I thought of just writing to my team about this inspiring session, and how our determination and will power can make a huge difference. While writing the mail, I also thought that I could write a blog about it.
It was great experience listening to the stories which everybody spoke from their hearts. The journey from failure to success is a transformation of yourself from being defined to determined
We all have our own success and failure stories. It could be small, it could big. As HRs, I am sure we encounter such cases in our professional life as well, but the important aspect is how we tackle it. We can listen to many such stories, but unless we decide to tackle or overcome the failure and turn it to success, we can’t celebrate the failure. We are our own source of inspiration.
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