Most of us hate the word "failure". But there's no better word than failure because "failures help us to understand more about success", as Jey used to say. Many of the successful people in this world have had failures, many times. More than they could count. But that's what makes them successful because every time they fail, they learn why they failed and try to do things better.

Here are some of the key things we have learnt from failure:

Failure is part of the process

As part of Team Jey, we have failed more than we could think. We have always failed when we tried to do something new and it didn't work. We have had spectacular failures. Be it in marketing, sales, or even support. But that's just part of the process. We learn from each failure and we keep track of notes why certain things failed so that others could read and learn from them. Of course, those notes are internal as of now. But we may publish them to the world to see!

Failure Muscle

Since failure is part of life, we try to build a resistance to feeling sad when we fail. That feeling of sadness is often replaced with an intellectual process where we try to ascertain why certain efforts failed. Thus we create a habit out of failure so that we don't feel sad or frightened of failure. Creating this failure muscle is super important. But that said, we don't romanticize failure either.

Successes from failures

We also keep track of our successes that arose from failures. That way, we know if we are on the right track. Even small wins are important for us so that we know that we are getting some positive feedback from the process. Remember it is a long process and we need to carry our failures before we see some successes.

Hopefully this post was as useful to you as it was to us. Leave a comment to share your thoughts!