"A word of encouragement during a
failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success." - Author
unknown
Recently I conducted 2 day workshop on
campus recruitment training for the students of an eminent engineering
institution where the prestigious Indian IT came to campus to recruit the best
talent. I am very passionate to share my 32 years of experience and knowledge
with students. I was very much excited with the students as most of them are
very ambitious and want to prove their best. They want to fast-track their
careers and make their parents, educators and country proud. It was a very
hectic activity for two days as I shared theoretical inputs and conducted
several role-plays along with mock-interview sessions to enhance their
employability skills and build their confidence. After completion of the
training program, I called some of the bright students who demonstrated
positive attitude and dedicated my upcoming book to them to inspire them. I
wished them good luck for their employment.
Some of the selected students personally
met me and thanked for my contribution. I was very much excited. However, I was
also upset as some of the rejected students hesitated to show their faces to
me. I understood that they are not willing to show their faces as they were not
selected. I would like to share with them that whether my students succeed or
fail I am always available for them. As
true parents handhold their children during their failures I also handhold my students
during their failures. In fact, I focus more on unsuccessful students where my
attention is needed more to train, transform and groom them as successful. I am
not much concerned about successful students as they lead their lives happily
in the companies.
Students must learn from the George
Woodberry’s quote, "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried
is the true failure." They must learn to take both success and failure
equally. Most of the students don’t know much about failures as they spent
their time only in educational institutions and not seen the real world. The truth
is that people learn a lot from failures only. Several great leaders failed
initially and finally bounced back including Abraham Lincoln and George
Washington. They did not take failures personally. They analyzed their failures,
found out what did not work for them and improved themselves. Hence, learn from
failures and improve yourself to succeed finally. Remember my message: who wins
at the end of the life journey counts, not who wins in the beginning or the middle
of the life journey.
"Success is not permanent. The
same is also true of failure." - Dell Crossword
Life is great!
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