Failure is defined as a lack of success or inability to meet expectations. While failure is commonly viewed negatively, it can provide valuable learning opportunities. The document outlines major causes of failure including lack of persistence, vision, discipline, and strategy. It also discusses the fear of failure and how to handle failure productively by maximizing learning, focusing on controllable factors, and redefining failure. Famous figures like Einstein, Disney, Edison, Jobs, Eminem, Oprah, and Lincoln are examples of people who experienced notable failures but ultimately achieved great success.

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2. Failure
Major Causes of
Failure
Fear of Failure
How to handle Failure
What is Failure

3. Failure is defined as a lack of success or the inability to meet
an expectation. A fairly common understanding of failure
is setting a goal but not achieving it. Failure is commonly
considered as the opposite of success.
Most of us don't set out looking to fail at anything. And
we especially don’t want to be labeled as a failure. But
maybe that is a mistake.
Maybe Failure can be useful. We can learn from it, gain
new insights, and do better next time. The right kind of
failures give us new information and teach us something that
gets us closer to our goals.
I. What is Failure?

4. 1. Lack of persistence
• More people fail not because they
lack knowledge or talent or money or
time, but because they quit.
• The total secret of success lies in two
words, persistence and resistance.
Persist in what must be done and
resist what ought not to be done.
II. Major Causes of Failure

5. 2. Lack of Vision or ambition
• People without a clear vision of
what they want to do or what
they want to be do not take a
stand. They go along to get along
because they lack confidence and
courage. They conform in order to
get accepted even when they
know that what they are doing is
wrong or not going to work in
their favor.

6. 3. Rationalizing
• Winners may analyze but never
rationalize. That is a loser’s game.
Losers always have a book full of
excuses to tell you why they could
not.

7. 4. Not learning from past mistakes
• People who do not learn lessons
from history are doomed. Failure is
a teacher if we have the right
attitude. Failure is a detour, not a
dead end. It is a delay not a defeat.
Experience is the name we give to
our mistakes.

8. 5. Lack of Discipline
• Anyone who has accomplished
anything worthwhile has never done
so without discipline. Discipline takes
self control, sacrifice, and avoiding
distraction and temptations. It means
staying focused till the work is done. It
doesn't mean that you cannot have
holidays, or take rest or have fun from
time to time ,but its about knowing
your priorities, and give them time
and attention.

9. 6. Lack of strategy
• Is when you know what you want,
but you don’t have a clear or
effective plan for achieving it. For
instance, maybe you’ve failed to
complete a project because you
only have a general sketch and not
a master plan.

10. III. Fear of Failure
• The fear of failure, which is sometimes
referred to as atychiphobia, is an
irrational and persistent fear of failing.
Sometimes this fear might emerge in
response to a specific situation. In other
cases, it might be related to another
mental health condition such
as anxiety or depression.
• The fear of failure may also be related to
being a perfectionist. Because
perfectionists have such high expectations
for how they expect things to turn out,
they may experience a nagging fear that
they won't live up to those often
unrealistically high standards.

11.  Believing that you don't have the skills or knowledge to
achieve something
 Procrastinating to the point that it affects your performance
or ability to finish on time
 Telling people that you will probably fail so that
expectations remain low
 Underestimating your own abilities to avoid feeling let
down
 Worrying that imperfections or shortcomings will make
other people think less of you
 Worrying that you will disappoint others if you fail

12. IV. How to handle Failure?
1. Maximize value of Failure
Use Failure to gain as much
advantage and information as
possible. It is important for us to take
time to capture these valuable
lessons and ensure that we learn
from our failures. In this way we can
build up a body of evidence-based
wisdom and experience that we can
use to inform our future decisions and
behavior.
“Failures are
finger posts on
the road to
achievement.” -
C.S. Lewis

13. 2.Get Back up…With Caution
Resilient individuals are able to take in their stride
what life throws at them, and carry on towards their
goal, although perhaps carrying a limp as they bear
the consequences of adversity. It takes courage to
keep moving forward when the path gets harder and
darker.
3. Focus on the things you can control
Instead of worrying about aspects of the situation
that you have no power over, focus your energy on
things that you can control.

14. 4. Plan Ahead
When you are facing a challenge that might trigger your
fear of failing, work on developing alternative plans just
in case your initial efforts don’t go as planned. Having a
plan B (or plan C) can help you feel less anxious and
more secure.
5. Use Positive Thinking
Avoid negative self-talk that can undermine your
confidence and create feelings of anxiety.
Instead, work on thinking more like an
optimist to keep your motivation high.

15. 6. Redefine Failure
Changing how you think about failure
may also help reduce your feelings
of fear. Failure is part of life and can
be an important opportunity to learn
and acquire new skills. It can
certainly be disappointing, but it is
important to maintain a healthy
perspective toward the potential
benefits of failing from time to time.
Remember that success is often
reached through a series of
progressive failures that lead to new
“Success is not
final, failure is not
fatal: it is the
courage to continue
that counts.” -
Winston Churchill

16. Famous Failures

17. • He couldn't speak until the age of
four and his schoolmaster wrote in
his school report that he will never
amount to anything back in 1895,
he said that his knowledge is
patchy.
• Years later he won Nobel prize
for the science of physic and he
became the founder of modern
physics and one of the greatest
scientists in the history of
humanity.
Albert Einstein
1879 - 1955

18. • Born in the country side, spend his
childhood working in a low paid
job, and he was kicked out of a
newspaper for lack of imagination
and no innovative ideas.
• The creator of Mickey Mouse,
he won 22 Oscars and he is
considered as the founding
father of Modern Animated
Cartoon.
Walt DISNEY
1901 - 1936

19. • His school master said the he was
so stupid to learn anything, so they
kick him out of school and we was
home schooled by his mother.
• He invented the light bulb, the
gramophone, and the carbon
microphone. He is One of the most
famous and prolific inventors of all
time.
Thomas edison
1847 - 1931

20. • At the age of thirty he was left
broken and wrecked after he as
removed from the company he
started it by himself.
• The founder of apple and Pixar
company. he oversaw the launch
of such revolutionary products as
the iPod and the iPhone.
Steve jobs
1955 - 2011

21. • he failed at school, He wrestled
with drugs and poverty and took
the trouble to commit a failed
suicide.
• He has 15 Grammys awards, an
Oscar and he sold more the 154
million album around the world.
And of course he is considered as
one of the greatest rappers in
history.
Eminem
1972 – Present day

22. • She had a rough childhood, she
was a victim of sexual abuse, she
was fired from her job as a news
reporter because, as she was told,
she was not suitable for television.
• Years later she became a media
legend who inspired millions of
people around the world. Her
show, ,The Oprah Winfrey Show,
was among the most popular of the
genre.
Oprah winfrey
1954 – Present day

23. • He was a failure in trade, he lost
his first love and failed 8 times at
the us elections.
• He was the 16th president of
United States. He passed the 13th
Amendment that ends slavery in
United States.
Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1965

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