When I was younger I looked at failure as something people would looks down on you for.

When I joined the military failure as a Private was part of their learning process. We as individuals had to take that critique and figure out how to learn from those mistakes, especially when it came to training for big exercises and real world missions.

As I become more experienced in the military at the many different jobs I learned and remember to not take mistakes to heart but use those as a stepping platform to better myself and the processes I was working on to ensure mission success. One of the biggest things I love about the military is the After Action Review and taking note of all the lessons learned as a collective to ensure we didn’t make the same mistakes next time.

Over failure is something we all as human beings are going to run into. It’s up to the person to take the time and learn what those mistakes were, regardless of how small and learn and move forward.

I don’t remember who said this but I remember it from a Limp Bizkit song, but “life is a lesson, you will learn it when your through.”