Success, The best way to revenge failure

Success, The best way to revenge failure

Just in the morning I came across this sentence. It shows there is no villain in your life, it is your own self that you compete with, if you fail in achieving something. In Bhagavatgita also this has been proved by lord Shri Krishna, 5000 years ago.

'Thinking narrowly', as much as I can, in terms of studies and trying to score 100% marks, is the Success and scoring less than 100% is failure for few people. However, if they achieve it they think they are successful.
It once happened that due to high fever I could not study thoroughly, still I appeared for exams. For me success would be scoring 75% but I went on to score 86%, that's called super success my mother, friends and relatives said. However, once, I was expecting 60 marks out of 100 in one subject, I scored 39, that was shear failure for me. So, some how I realized that I am not competing with a class of 120 or 1000 students in the University, it is the marks that I am fighting with. Many parents, Professors, students, stakeholders did not agree that there is NO COMPETETION. Later, when I convinced them this is the target, scoring 100% or 75% or 60% as per "the individual's 100%". Then they went on to agree.
Comparison comes when relative grades are there.
Any how no debate.
You might have seen people pumping in air in Olympics. Usain Bolt, had set the target less than 9.7 seconds in 100 meters, he did it, made it 9.69 seconds a new WR, he was competing with time and his body movements. Michael Phelps went on to win 8 Gold, as 7 was earlier set target in 1972 by Mark Spitz. If one decides the target to be 10/ 11/ or higher Olympic Gold Medals as his 100%, may be it is possible for him/ her next.
For few, scoring best time better than his/her earlier could be 100%, which may not fetch Gold but that will be success for him/her. Then here comes the relative terms. One can get a gold only if person is top performer in the finals.
Thus achieving Gold is success for them and achieving it with World Record (WR) is super success for them.
Even though WR are going to be broken by some time still on that particular moment they are the most successful in the world.
Also, Michael Phelps got Silver Medals in earlier Olympic but he and his team took revenge by scoring gold for Michael Phelps. A true spirit.
China had set target of 50 gold medals in present Olympics, they achived it after 90 years of struggle and many after many failures. See this revolution on URL: http://www.china.org.cn/english/olympic/211765.htm
Coming to Golf, Nick Faldo was the first person to put golf ball with one shot directly in a hole from the distance more than 100 meters. He was also one of the first to beat one competitor by one shot even without getting a birdie in the final round, when he pared all 18 holes. That is where 100% perfection comes into picture that is what success is.
Thus some times it is said that 'if you are perfect in your job' success follows that person.
I saw many children failing to climb a ladder, or even starting to walk. However, I saw them trying hard and taking revenge on failures by climbing after several attempts. Who says only ants, honey bees, fishes, kinds of other species only work hard. Looking at the efforts children put no one can deny even human beings also work hard.
Look at the human creations around the world. The Underground Railways in so many countries, USA, UK, Canada, India, ….these are all human efforts and success derived after lot of failures. Take few examples like Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Aswan Dam, Three Gorges Dam, there were more failures than success. These huge constructions are not only country specific but are the triumph of human efforts over multiple failures in the past.

Discovering the naval path to India was not an easy task for Columbus. He failed to convince his colleagues many times and even was on the brink of getting drowned however he took revenge with his negative thoughts and was successful in finding a path to what is known as USA and the whole of American Continent. Many say he failed to find way to India but later the continent he found went on to be the most happening place on earth almost for next 500 years.

Abraham Lincoln, failed 17 times and went on to be President of USA. Thus, he is the most experienced person as far as the failures in the Presidential election are considered, this made him more humble and one of the greatest President of USA. HE revenged against himself for failures and was successful in his 17th attempt. Great efforts, devotion and self-belief.

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Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude,
ashish.urkude@gmail.com