Starting with failure - another side of failure

Finally, I am starting my blog. I will be writing on various topics but with focus on failure, entrepreneurship and activism.

My first post will be about one of my favorite speeches. It is by JK Rowling who wrote top hit Harry Potter series.

I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.

Full transcript here: http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination

Failures are usually ridiculed instead of being embraced, especially in Asian society. As a result, consequences of a failure are exaggerated exacerbated.

As Ms Rowling has pointed out, there is silver lining in a failure, there is another perspective to a failure. Only through failures, lessons are learned, skin is thickened, excess is shed, and stamina is toughened.

Fear for failures would be counter-productive. As long as failure is not embraced, we would be just prisoners of this fear.

I have learnt it with a serious setback. Failure - here I come.