How to fail properly

The purpose of failing is not to learn how to succeed via the development of useful heuristics (although this may be a beneficial side product), it is to learn how to live your life on your own terms. You can only do this by rejecting the terms of others, those which define “success” – the opposite of the failure. Or to put it another way “ah, but to live in the imagined and reflected glory of others!”

You’ll know you’re well on the way when you learn to fail on purpose and not by accident.

Let’s face it, when you go for something, generally you measure up the odds before launching into it. You either learn to ignore this step, or increase your appetite for risky propositions.

What’s the deal with living on your own terms? Well we’re social animals and we derive our life forces from social interactions. However the social ennui can go too far and capture us in glass cage, defined by the expectations of others. It’s always someone else not the person you’re talking to; each is a victim of the collective just like you.

It’s a paradox for the ages. All you can do is free yourself. The rest, well that’s their problem. By definition.