On failure...

So many people have written about the subject, but I want to take my shot on it

Failure is something I’ve learned to live with, not because I’m a loser, but because I’ve come to accept it as a part of life. It is something that we all must accept and “use”

Why?!

Let me use an analogy, my favorite topic, basketball J the UAAP men’s basketball, and of course the team closes to my heart, the Growling Tigers. The UAAP will be on its 71st season this 2008, UST is one of the teams with the most number of Men’s basketball crown, 19. UST is also one of the founding members of league. So that means 19 out of the 70 seasons my team were champions. That’s a 27.14% success rate (if our criteria of success is winning the championship) which I think should be. Meaning 72% of the time they failed. That’s using averages

Let’s use probabilities this time, same example, UST Men’s basketball team in the UAAP. Let’s assume on thing, that all of the 8 teams competing are of equal strength, talent etc, meaning everyone is capable of winning the crown. If that is the case, that means everyone’s chances is 1 out of 8 or 0.125 probability (12.5%). That’s one winner out of the 8, one will go home happy the others crying

I guess my point is, we will fail more that we succeed, live with it. But, we should learn from it and grow. Failures will only make our successes SWEETER and we can say that its all worth the shit.