Do you feel sad when you fail?

Isn’t it a dumb question like who doesn’t feel sad while failing? But what makes our brain associate failure with sadness. How does our brain learn that?

Does a small kid know anything about failing?

The kid only knows about playing the game without caring about winning or losing. Simply enjoy the game at play.

As we grow up we learn about winning and losing by observing the surrounding. Competitiveness gets ingrained deeply in us.

People want to avoid losing because it will be a shame to lose.

Playing to win and playing to avoid losing are both different mindsets. It seems like both covey the same. If you think deeply they are dissimilar.

There is no failure class in our education system. But most of the things we learn be it walking or writing. We learn it by failing and making mistakes again and again. There is nothing new about it. You already knew that.

Then why do we have fear of failing to try new stuff? Without trial and error, we cannot learn new stuff. But we don’t want to fail. So ultimately we are left with doing nothing.

There is nothing new about this too. We have read this in the past and we read today and will continue to live the way we are.

Let me twist it a bit. The best time to fail is quickly so you save your time and have more options to fail and ultimately reach the destination and bingo you won.

But after winning? You fail again on multiple things and then hit the bingo again. It’s an infinite loop. With each iteration, you can wisely lessen the failures. It sounds simple to read-only.

Because even after reading it we are not gonna do anything 🙂

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