1. Disappointment is a feeling of dissatisfaction when something that a person wants is not achieved or one’s expectation is not fulfilled. 2. Disappointment may be caused by failure. 3. Failure means that one’s effort to achieve something is unsuccessful. 4. Failure means inability to do or achieve something. 5. Failure also means non-performance of an act that one is expected to do. INTENT (The objective is to help each participant explore the topic for himself, individually and independently. Following are some of the objectives of the session.) 1. To understand what is disappointment 2. To analyse why one gets disappointed 3. To understand what is failure 4. To analyse why one fails 5. To analyse whether disappointment needs to be avoided 6. To analyse whether failure needs to be avoided 7. To analyse whether disappointment could be avoided 8. To analyse whether failure could be avoided 9. To explore whether disappointment impacts oneself, nature, environment, things and situations 10. To explore whether failure impacts oneself, nature, environment, things and situations 11. To understand what happens when one is disappointed 12. To understand what happens when one fails. 13. To analyse whether expectations play any role in one's disappointments and failures. QUESTIONS 1. What is disappointment? 2. What causes disappointment? 3. What is failure? 4. What causes one to fail? 5. Can failure and disappointment be avoided? If yes, how? 6. How can one overcome failure and disappointment? 7. How does a person who is disappointed or has failed feel? 8. What can one do to overcome the feeling of disappointment or the feeling that engulfs us on having failed? 9. Does expectation play a role in one’s disappointments and failures? 10. Can failure be taken positively? If yes, in what manner? 11. What is the role of disappointments and failure in one’s future and his success?

1. A LivingValues Movement
PPT 25

2. TOGETHER FOR A JOYFUL WORLD

3. “One day, a small
opening appeared on a
cocoon.
A man sat and
watched the butterfly
for several hours as it
struggled to force its
body through that
little hole.

4. After a while, it seemed as though it
had stopped making any progress.
It appeared as if it had gotten as far as
it could and it could not go any
further.

5. So the man decided to
help the butterfly.
He took a pair of
scissors and opened the
cocoon.
The butterfly then
emerged easily.
But it had a withered
body, it was tiny and
had shrivelled wings.

6. The man continued to watch...
He expected the wings to open
and enlarge to be able to support
the butterfly’s body, and become
firm any moment...

7. Nothing happened!
In fact, the butterfly spent the rest
of its life crawling around with a
withered body and shrivelled
wings.
It never was able to fly...

8. INTERACTION

9. The kind man did not understand that the
struggle required for the butterfly to get
through the tiny opening, forced the fluid from
the body of the butterfly into its wings so that
it would be ready for flight once it achieved its
freedom from the cocoon.