The Courage to Learn: The Best Way to Turn Failure into Success

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"The Courage to Learn" is a constraining phrase which summarizes the bravery required to embrace the unknown and persist through challenges. The main goal is the growth pursuit and understanding.  Learning needs a courage from overcoming fear of failure because learning will involve making mistakes. It means it is essential for learners to own the courage to confront and learn from those mistakes.

Is It Possible To Learn How To Courage?

Cynthia L. S Pury wrote a chapter in a book titled ‘Positive Psychology’ that discussed specifically about how people can learn to courage. She and Cooper Woodland have made a definition about courage as an intentional worthy goal pursuit, no matter how there is a perception of personal threat.  The definition is focusing on several features of courage by Christopher Rate.

A quote from C.S Lewis also talks about courage :

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point”

Why An Individual Should Have Courage to Learn

When a teacher is teaching their students courage to learn, then students have better courage not only in school, but also life.  Teachers mostly find courage as a daunting topic though it is very crucial in improving a strong basic of either self-determination or self-worth.

1. Resilience in Adversity

Whether in academic, personal, or professional contexts, courage is needed to persist when progress feels slow or obstacles seem insurmountable. Courage for students, in real life, comes in various sizes. When they were kids, some of them were hard to make new friends, for example. Knowing the courage it requires to approach a new friend or give a try to a new thing is highly important.  When a student understands that small courageous acts will cause a major influence on the adversity of friends as well as communities, then he or she will never want to be discouraged during the learning process.

2. Pushing Boundaries

When students find the courage to learn, then they will not doubt to step outside comfort zones. Even more, they will not be discouraged to engage with complicated concepts. Some students make their own boundaries because they don’t have any courage to start new things. 

Most of the times, they prefer to stay in their comfort zones without any desire to learn new things.   It is important for teachers who teach younger kids to focus on this. Or else, students will grow up without having any encourage to explore their creativity and self-esteem.

3. Humility to Learn New Things

It is important to make sure that a very small student doesn’t feel humiliated to admit that he doesn’t now about something. Even an adult usually feels shameful when he doesn’t know, yet pretending that he knows everything. Learning often requires admitting what we don’t know, a humbling yet transformative act.

H. Guthrie Chamberlain, III wrote on his blog Wisdom Trek as he also quotes C.S. Lewis’: “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”

He mentions that being humble is the sign of strengh. Most people think that humility indicates weakness.  A person with humility owns his or her own inner peace because there is nothing to hide from others. A humble person is authentic.

The truth is that treating success among every person is different. Some people will remain humble when achieve their success.  Those people usually don’t forget who they were before reaching their fame.  

4. Innovation through Trials And Errors

The fact is that most breakthroughs happen after a series of trials and errors.  Failure encourages creativity as it will push an individual to think outside the box.

Brendan Flattery, a CEO for FTSE 100 business software provider, Sage, wrote in his article that some parents and teachers don’t allow their kids to learn from mistakes. They are not aware that they push their children not to fail.  Even bosses punish their employees for failing.

He quoted the famous quote by Thomas Edison before he finally made a revolutionary discovery.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Edison proved that his trials and errors contributed to his exceptional innovation. This quote is indeed worth keeping on everyone’s mind when he’s trying to do new things.

How To Turn Failure into Success

The courage to learn can lead a person to turn failure into success. It is very common theme which will underscore the changing power of resilience, growth, and determination.

1. Learning Opportunities

Failures often highlight gaps in knowledge or strategy, serving as lessons for improvement. They provide clarity on what works and what doesn’t, guiding future efforts. Ed Brenegar has learned that failing fast is the best way to get the most from failures. Failing fast can detect errors in fast way so it will help a person to learn the best way to handle problems in avoiding failures.

2. Building Resilience

Facing setbacks teaches persistence and the ability to adapt under pressure. Resilience cultivated through failure can lead to greater confidence in tackling challenges. In his book, “From Failure to Success: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Build Mental Resilience and Turn Failures Into Successes”, a bestselling author Martin Meadows, is showing the real definition of failure and the constructive method to deal with it. Meadows wrote about his own life experience as he also faced several failures in building businesses.

3. Reframing Failure

A person who has the courage to learn can view failure as a temporary setback instead of a permanent defeat.  Still on Meadow’s book, he reveals how many times he failed and kept struggling by learning mistakes instead of doing what motivators say.

Conclusion

The key to turn failures into success is basically from the courage to learn. Everyone should start this habit from the beginning, so it is very important for all kids to learn from their failures. It requires an active role of parents and teachers so kids are still confident after making mistakes as they can learn from them to improve their skills.