"bukvich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <bukvich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I work with a clown who likes to say "failure is not an option". Every
> time he says that I want to kick him in the nuts and then sometimes I
> stop myself and think on the inside he could be the most holy perfect
> vehicle. In the psycho literature they refer to this as _cognitive
> dissonance_.
Failure is only an option if you accept it as an option. "Let's see. We
have option A, option B, option C, option D, or what-the-hell, we can
just punt and accept failure." "If it isn't worth doing at all, it isn't
worth doing well." At any point you can choose to give up, and accept
failure. Then failure is an option.
But if you refuse to accept failure as an option, then it becomes an
imposition. You might fail despite your best efforts. Maybe you simply
don't have what it takes to achieve your goal under current
cir***stances. Maybe it's something that looked like it ought to be
easily done, and you only found out later about the problems. So you
give it your best try and you succeed or you fail. You didn't accept the
failure option, it happened to you despite everything.
This isn't such a terrible thing to say, is it?
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