Why a website on failure, because we fail often and we can benefit from doing more than just saying 'learn from your failures'. This website aims to show you what to do next based on scientific evidence and experience

So, why a website on failure, you may ask..

When nearly every website on success, motivation, inspiration and self-help has a token few pages on learning from and coping with failure.

Because I think most of those posts are just scratching the surface of a goldmine of resources for success. Simply, I think failure is under-rated.

Why focus on failure, when we tend to learn more from success?

Some behavioural science suggests that we learn more from our successes than our failures, but we fail wa-ay more often than we succeed. If we are failing often, and if we can gain from failure (which we can!), it makes sense to harness the learnings from failure.

Why add to the oodles of available information on how to avoid failure and increase success?

What is out there is often not contextualised. Here, I’ve selected tips with a scientific-basis , or that have been shown useful, but share real-world context such as when might this strategy work and how you could actually apply this? Here, I couple tips with application, providing you with an actionable strategy.

Failure is uncomfortable (to put it mildly) how can dwelling on failure help?

Correct! Dwelling on failure doesn’t help. This is about dissecting and gaining from failure. This is about reaping the rewards of failure, and.... when you write it down you let it go.

Can we really reframe failure?

I hope so.

Failure has been defined as:

• the state or condition of not achieving the desired outcome [1]
• a lack of success [2]

I hope the word failure comes to mean a useful attempt towards achievement.

Move over “epic fail”, take over “failure is epic!”

Hoping your next fail provides you with the ingredients for success!

References

1. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. 
2. Failure Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary [Internet]. Available from: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/failure