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D Y PATIL FAILURES DON’T DEFINE YOU
FAILURES DON’T DEFINE YOU
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There was a story we all must have read when we
were small. The story of a spider and a King.
When a defeated King was in the prison, he
noticed a spider trying to climb up the wall. He
saw that despite the fact that the spider kept
falling in its many attempts, it kept trying to
climb till he succeeded.
It was because of the belief and the endless efforts that the
spider was successful in climbing. The King learned a lot
by witnessing this situation. So, what do we learn from

this story? The failure that the spider went through while
climbing couldn’t define the fact that “he could climb”.
Same is with our life; if we are not able to achieve a
particular task, that doesn’t mean that we are not good
enough to achieve the task. However, it means that we
need to work harder in order to achieve that task. You will

find that all the stories of success are also stories of great
triumph over adversity. But often we overlook the setbacks
and only focus on the end result i.e. success. As a young
cartoonist, Walt Disney faced countless rejections, but that
didn’t stop him to believe in himself and that’s when
Mickey Mouse and many Disney characters were born.
Thomas Edison, was once rejected from his school
thinking that he was a special child who required
special school. But it was his mother’s belief that
today we all know him for his invention of light bulb
and much more.

“Failure is just an event, not a person.”
It is believed that when you fail in accomplishment
of a particular work, that does not define you as a
person.

How you choose to interpret your failures will
either make you move forward in life or hold you

back. Every failure can be turned into a stepping
stone to success. Every mistake is a lesson, that
tells you what not to do. Every setback is an Ms. Sneha Jagtap
opportunity to dig deeper into yourself.
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