I am struggling with the term “failure” and have written about it a few times. I get when people say that it’s okay to fail and I know what they are meaning, but my fear is that our community think something totally different when we say things such as “we encourage failure”.
So I thought of this video of Derek Redmond and his dad, which I found to be one of the most inspirational videos from the Olympics ever. Watch it if you have never seen it (have tissue paper ready):
My question is, would you consider this failure? If Derek Redmond did not get up, would that be failure? If he didn’t get up and never competed again, to me, that is failure. But getting up and doing the best possible even after you stumble, I think that is part of growth and learning.
Thoughts?
