In today’s society failure is strictly forbidden. If you
fail a test everyone is disappointed in you, and if you succeed, oh well that’s
the expectation from birth. Kids are not the only ones able to fail at
something. Adults too can’t do anything wrong at work of they will get fired. This
world, at least in America has turned into a world of tests. If you succeed (or
pass) the tests you are given you succeed in life, if you fail them you fail at
life. I think this world has developed into a place where failure is not an
option. For example is school if you fail just one test it can ruin your whole
grade for the semester. This leads people to want to be successful at
everything the first time.
Parents are so afraid of their children failing that
they become over protective. While this creates their success in certain areas kids
can grow to rely on their parents too much. Also if they never fail then when
they are older and do fail for the first time they won’t be able to cope and
will just crumble apart at their disappointment of themselves. This is one
downfall of society’s lack of tolerance for failure.
Another problem with today’s view on success and
failure is that everyone needs to be successful very quickly. Everyone is
expected to get it right the first time. “We would estimate, very roughly, that
a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to 50,000 hours staring at chess positions”. This
quote is about how it takes years of diligent practice in order to truly master
something, yet in our society you’re expected to master chemistry or statistics
in a few short months. In my opinion failure is not allowed in society because
it is not possible, one cannot “make it in life” with any failures under our
current system.
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