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In our highly competitive world, we prize success and hate it when things go wrong, but is there actually a value in failing?
When Irish author Flann O’Brien submitted the manuscript for his second book, The Third Policeman, to a London publisher in 1940 it was rejected.
But rather than admit this lack of success to his friends, he pretended the manuscript had accidentally blown out of the boot of his car on a trip to Donegal and had been lost forever.
“This was a ruinous thing to say because he couldn’t then turn around and say, ‘Oh I’ve found it again,’ so the manuscript sat very openly on his sideboard until his death,” says Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright. She has selected O’Brien’s story to appear in an exhibition entitled Fail Better at the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin.
“The year after [O’Brien’s] death, his wife got it published to a keen reception.”
The aim of the Science Gallery’s exhibition is to encourage debate about the informative aspects of failure and how it can encourage greater creativity in all aspects of life.
We are all scared of failing and having to admit errors or mistakes to our peers, and this fear heightens as we grow towards adulthood.says Heather Hanbury, headmistress of Wimbledon High School. In 2012 the private girls’ school held a “failure week” to teach its pupils how to become more resilient and learn from their mistakes.
“You’re not born with fear of failure, it’s not an instinct, it’s something that grows and develops in you as you get older. Very young children have no fear of failure at all. They have great fun trying new things and learning very fast,” says Hanbury.
She says fear of failure can be crippling as it stops us from taking risks. This automatically cuts off new opportunities in life.
“Our focus here is on failing well, on being good at failure. What I mean by this is taking the risk and then learning from it if it doesn’t work,” says Hanbury.
“There’s no point in failing and then dealing with it by pretending it didn’t happen, or blaming someone else, that would be a wasted opportunity to learn more about yourself and perhaps to identify gaps in your skills, experiences or qualifications. Once you’ve identified the learning you can then take action to make a difference.”
“If the failure was our own fault we become more tolerant of human error”
— Author and former professional cricketer, Ed Smith
“Perfectionism is the enemy of achievement”
—Heather Hanbury, headmistress of Wimbledon High School
The above article picked on the BBC news, written by Lucy willas.
