Poll: Which is worse: failing or never trying?
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Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
In the case of... say... trying to get in good with a person you're attracted to, it's better to try and fail. That's an easy one to learn from.
On the other hand, if your objective is suicide, it's generally better never to try... or so I would imagine.
In the case of... say... trying to get in good with a person you're attracted to, it's better to try and fail. That's an easy one to learn from.
On the other hand, if your objective is suicide, it's generally better never to try... or so I would imagine.
Never trying is easily the worse option here. Unless you're one of those deluded "I would have succeeded if I wanted to" types, then it's all good!
What are you trying to do?
Sometimes it's better to have never tried if the potential consequences of failure are dire enough, and it's easier to forget a missed opportunity than a screwup.
Sometimes it's better to have never tried if the potential consequences of failure are dire enough, and it's easier to forget a missed opportunity than a screwup.
I suppose it depends on what we're talking about. It's probably better to not try jumping across the grand canyon, for example.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's not always going to be one or the other. Consider the odds of success in a given situation and ask yourself whether the risks are worth the potential rewards.
I guess what I'm saying is that it's not always going to be one or the other. Consider the odds of success in a given situation and ask yourself whether the risks are worth the potential rewards.
Sorry, but I hate unrevolved issues. If nothing gets done and nothing gets solved. You're not just a failure, you're a failure squared or cubed for being too useless to even initiate. In a situation where you have succeed and fail, you have 50/50 odd, win and lose, yay and boo. If you don't even start it up, you have guaranteed failure and that makes you basically worthless.
So, never stop trying and don't be so afraid of failure. Failing to face failure is just terrible.
So, never stop trying and don't be so afraid of failure. Failing to face failure is just terrible.
This may sound a little coarse, but I was raised to believe I was strong. Refusal to even try something I wanted to do, to improve myself or because I know that pursuing it would make me happy, would be contradictory with that motto.
It all depends on the situation, point of view etc. For example, failure has a feeling of, well... failure. It's not a nice feeling to have and if you just hadn't bothered to try you wouldn't feel so inadequate right now... On the other hand, if you don't try you'll never know if you could have in fact succeeded, or you know just how miserably you may have failed.
In most cases, each time you try something, you have a chance to learn and do better, especially when you fail. If you never try at all, then your suckage will never be grown out of.
If you don't try, there isn't even a chance you can succeed. And that's just a shame. Where would we be in this world if we never put ourselves out there? Good things come to those who seek them out.
Failing is definitely worse, because it means that you wasted time that could have been spent more productively on something else, such as having fun. Not trying is NOT failing by default, because you didn't invest time, effort and emotion on something that ultimately yielded no reward.
Never trying because you don't know if you fail at it or not, you might surprise yourself. And if you fail, so what, at least you tried and you learned something about yourself, or how to do something better.
Depends. Sometimes the consequences of failure are minor, or the chance of failure is low. But sometimes, the cost of failure is too much to risk. Death, loss of sanity, loss of friends, even the sheer shame of failure, which makes death a rather attractive alternative, rather than everyone seeing you as a pathetic failure.