The Architecture of Success

 The Architecture of Success

If we fail to fail, we are failing to succeed. Dictionaries define failure as the opposite of success, but it is an integral part of it. If a successful person is a book, that book will have chapters of ideas, struggles, setbacks, and failures. Those who embark on the journey of achievement and are willing to face failure are already on the path to success, but those who fear failure are nowhere near it.

The road to success is not paved with a red carpet; rather, it is a path that has yet to be laid. Its raw ingredients are ideas, risk, struggles, setbacks, backstabs, rejection, insults, and failures. These factors strengthen your ability to move forward.

If you have decided to achieve something and the fear of failure is holding you back, all you need to do is fail first, so that fear loses its grip. Once you taste failure, you will realize it was not bitter medicine; it was a nutrient building you toward success.

There is a saying: "Ships are safe in the harbour, but that is not what they are built for." Similarly, it is safe to stay in your comfort zone, but that is not our permanent place to reside. It is merely a motel where we can rest and re-energise before starting our journey toward what we truly want to achieve.

With a fixed mindset, the comfort zone looks comfortable, and challenges look like problems that hold us back; with a growth mindset, the comfort zone looks uncomfortable, and problems look like challenges that push us to face them with ease and grit.

Ideate, explore, fall, and rise—that is what has built nations and organisations, and that is exactly what will build you and me.

M.L. Narendra Kumar