Failing to learn from our failures. An action that produce results that are not acceptable to our pre-set target. Usually, in manufacturing or business term, this is considered " missed target" or failed to meet objective. Then the whole activity now will be put forward and broken down for analysis. In PDCA ( Plan, Do, Check, Action) cycle evaluation, it falls under the CHECK. The whole team or individual staff will do a failure analysis and provide a suitable solution as remedial action.
This process is a continual process until everyone is happy.
However what about set goals and targets which we ourselves undertake in life journey process but did not able to reach them. Do we term them failure? It is more of an experience, maybe due to the fact that we did not understand the methodologies to meet that goal.
Wrong focus, erroneous judgement, taking the situation for granted, thinking it will easy to complete. Immature decision making due to lack of experience. Stubborn attitude in pursuing the task without considering the intricacies in arriving the intended goal.
Rewind back to firm or organization scenario; work details, process mapping, work-breakdown Schedule and Critical Path Analysis are missing (WBS) and CPA) and other project management tools were not properly used.
Rewind back to firm or organization scenario; work details, process mapping, work-breakdown Schedule and Critical Path Analysis are missing (WBS) and CPA) and other project management tools were not properly used.
The impacts are wastages, material loss, cost inflation due to repeat actions, labour hour lost etc. The management will order a new team to take over. Then when a new team takes over, past failures are incorporated to be correct and prevent similar issues from cropping up, critical issues would be tackled at once. As a result, the overall objective and target may meet as planned. A lesson learned in a short period of time.
Now, coming back to us; take this scenario back into our own life, how well can we learn from our own failures? The answer maybe fast. It may take months, years or even decades to realize how to learn from our own failures and not to repeat in the near future!
This will be not as simple as running a business organization or firm at large. Learning to learn from failures process takes much more than that. It requires learning about our own behaviours, characters, attitudes, religious believes, environment that we had grown-up, the situation we are in and the mental state.
Emotion plays a very large part. The physiological as well the physiological elements had its hand on the success rate.
Usually on a personal level, we don't analyse too detail why we fail, hence chances that repeat failures to occur is high. Intuition and perception and assumption decides action, thus, the end result may not still be the best. Do first, recover later if failed will be deciding attitude. Consequences, impact to self, people around them, loved ones feel the brunt of failures and repeat failures and of course to own-self.
In spiritualism concept in Hinduism, there is no clear concept of pass and fail in the real sense. It is all about learning, learning and learning to do the right thing. If mistakes are done, opportunities are still available to correct that failure until its all done, usually benefits to everyone. Right action dictates pass or fail. Purposeful failures results in heavier dharmic repercussion. Self-inflicted, not god punishment. You reap what you sow.
Consequences of failing to learn from failure.
Suppose you are ten years old, you'd done some mistake and failed, the impact is usually negligible because the mind is in its infancy state of understanding about good and bad concepts and its implication.
Now, if you're 18 years old youth and you made similar mistakes and failed, you'd be sure the impact and results are higher but not to be so critical.
Sometimes at later years, at the age of 35 years old age, the same mistake and failures done will be severe and critical to you. The price of repeating that failure is proportion to one'maturity. Law of karma is just, it doesn't punish but inflict pain created by the doer back to him/her.
Sometimes at later years, at the age of 35 years old age, the same mistake and failures done will be severe and critical to you. The price of repeating that failure is proportion to one'maturity. Law of karma is just, it doesn't punish but inflict pain created by the doer back to him/her.
Same failure at different age and time results in higher consequences of resultant impacts. We make that choice as we are free to do what we to do.
