Connecting with thoughts - My thoughts and Me

It's time to not only learn from failure but also celebrate it. Thanks to the success of startup entrepreneurs and the experienced Venture Capitalists willing to risk failure while making their bets has made failure an interesting proposition. The startups (and entrepreneurs) have been upfront in acknowledging their failure and not having a clue about what exactly needed to be done before striking gold much to the cheer of it supporters. Everybody loves such stories of failures who went on to be successful. Eulogies are being written and plesantaries are being exchanged celebrating the inevitability of failure and importance of learning from it. There is no point denying that. However this just happens to be one side of failure. The brighter side if you may call it. There also happens to be another side of failure. The other side unfortunately is dark, ignored and unwanted. Nobody ever likes to own it. For failure here is an anathema. It's something to be feared and avo...

Failure is a part and parcel of life. What's a life without failures? But then not everyone rises up from failures. Likewise, nor does everyone get a chance to start all over again, especially after everything that one has built has been washed away and destroyed. It could be for reasons within or even beyond control. Mistakes one made or did not make. But the most important lesson when starting again is to be able to realize the mistakes that one made and accept them. That's the first thing one needs to do. Then evaluate and learn from them. There is no point in starting all over again to make the same mistakes again. That's far worst than not getting an opportunity to start again. In the movie, Salmon Fishing in Yemen, a visionary sheikh believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his represent...