Why failure is important in success

By Gunith Thukral, Apeejay School, Pitampura

Success is another hunger the world craves for. Everyone, rich or poor, small or big, animals or plants, everyone struggles till they succeed, and this process goes through many trials. These trials are sometimes termed as failures. As per me, this word is not relevant to tell about trials. Unless and until we ‘fail’( try), we won’t learn, reconsider, retry, and grow. Trials could be successful, but nothing is perfect. Earlier, Graham Bell invented the landline phone, which was made after a lot of trials, but after that, the smartphone was invented, and landlines became obsolete. Candidly speaking, if you had tried, literally failed a hundred times, you would quit. But scientist Edison failed 1000 times, even after he didn’t quit.  After trying so many times, he improved and finally, after 1000 attempts, he made a working bulb that worked on DC currents. Let’s take another example of a scientist who was discouraged by his own mentor, Edison, yet he learnt from things made earlier ( here, a bulb running on DC current ). Tesla looked beyond the limitations his mentor Edison saw, and ultimately made a better current known as AC current.

To end, I would say failures are trials just as the famous quote says, “ If you fail, never give up because FAIL means – First Attempt In Learning.”-  A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.