II Shri Swaminarayan Vijayatetamam II

Workshop - 6
Significance of failures
40 Minutes

Note:. The material provided for this workshop is to be presented using PPT slides. Yuvaks participating in the
workshop will be required to speak, think, and write. For this, everyone should be given paper and pens
beforehand. Just the points to be covered in the presentation are given here. You may add your creativity.

Slide:- 02 ▪ Fear of being the first

 Failure BUT…
There was a conversation on WhatsApp between There is no law stating that people who fail always
the failure and the person. fail and people who are successful always succeed.
Successful people face the same factors of failure
− The person wrote to failure, I know we've lived
like everyone else! So what makes them stand
together since I was a kid, but I can't bear you
apart? Successful people look at failure from a
anymore.
different perspective - they embrace failure. They
− In fact, I HATE you! Can you please leave me
crush negative thoughts! Successful people move
alone?
in a completely different direction.
Then failure replied that
Slide:- 06
− I know you hate me and love success. But the
reality is, the further you run from me the further  Fear of being first.
you move from success. Sir Roger Bannister was the first man to run a mile
− You have to accept me to achieve success. The key in under 4 minutes! Doctors and scientists at the
to success is failure. time believed it was physically impossible to run a
Slide:- 03 mile in less than 4 minutes. But Bannister decided
to do the impossible! In 1954, against all odds,
− “Ups and downs in life are very important to keep
Roger ran one mile in 3:59.4 minutes, breaking the
us going because a straight line even in an ECG
world record! 46 days later, another runner broke
means we are not alive." Ratan Tata.
Bannister's record! Over the next few years, more
Slide:- 04
and more people began to break the 4-minute mile
− So far no one has been able to do it, then who am
record. To date, 1,400 athletes have broken the 4-
I?
minute barrier!
− What if I fail? What will people think of me? It’s
Once Bannister proved that the impossible was
better not to even try.
possible, suddenly everyone was able to do it!
− It's not even my fault if I had better resources and
Let us try to understand the thoughts of some
more time…
highly successful people when they face failure.
− I failed just because I’m not good enough.
Slide:- 07
− I tried my best and still failed! So what's the point
− Who cares if no one believes in my novel? one day
of trying again?
my book will show magic!
− Rocky told me it was impossible. I Shouldn’t Have
Slide:- 08
wasted my time.
− So can’t become a voice actor? Big Deal! I will
Slide:- 05
become a Bollywood star!
 Factors affecting FAILURE
Slide:- 09
▪ Listening to negativity
− It doesn’t matter that I can’t score with my eyes
▪ Making excuses
open. One day I Will score without even looking at
▪ Lack of persistance
the basket.
▪ Lack of self-esteem
▪ Fear of failure

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 Slide:- 10 − "What I feared most for myself at your age was not
− Getting kicked out of my own company? Who poverty, but failure... I had failed on an epic scale.
cares? I can create another one. An exceptionally short-lived marriage bad
Slide:- 11 imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as
− SO… poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain,
Once in a while, everyone passes through a tough without being homeless... by every usual standard,
test. Each of the people below is extremely I was the biggest failure I knew.”
successful, and yet, each one has tasted the bitter Slide:- 15
taste of failure before enjoying the sweetness of • STEVE JOBS
success. − CEO and Co-founder of Apple Inc., visionary behind
Slide:- 12 revolutionary technology such as the iPod, iPhone,
• Michael Jordan. iPad, Macbook, and many more. 141 of Steve Jobs's
− One of the all-time greatest players in the history of inventions and designs have been patented." Steve
basketball. Jobs was worth 10.2 billion dollars" prior to his
− 5 times National Basketball Association (NBA) Most passing away in 2011.
Valuable Player (MVP) award. − Dropped out of college and had to sleep on the
− Won NBA championship 6 times. floor of his friends' rooms. He didn't have enough
− "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've money to purchase food, so he would deposit
lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted Coca-Cola bottles for 5 cents and collect money
to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've that way. Would walk
failed over and over and over again in my life. And − 7 miles across town to receive one good meal every
that is why I succeed," Sunday night. At the age of 30, he was kicked out
Slide:- 13 as CEO of Apple, the very company he founded!
• AMITABH BACHCHAN. − "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting
− Does Big B even need an introduction?! The 'B' in fired from Apple was the best thing that could have
Bollywood stands for Bachchan. He has been ever happened to me. The heaviness of being
awarded Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, and Padma successful was replaced by the lightness of being a
Vibhushan by the Government of India. He was the beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed
first actor to receive the Filmfare Lifetime me to enter one of the most creative periods of my
Achievement Award. He has acted in at least 163 life... During the next five years, I started a company
films. named NeXT, and another company named Pixar...
− Rejceted by All India Radio before he got into In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT,
Bollywood. I returned to Apple, and the technology we
− Rejected during his first several auditions because developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current
he was considered too tall. renaissance... Sometimes life hits you in the bead
− The first 12 movies were flopped! with a brick. Don't lose faith."-
− Had to go into semi-retirement in 1994 after 4 years Slide:- 16
of box office failures.  NO ONE IS BORN SUCCESSFUL.
− Venture into film production left him bankrupt." SUCCESS MUST BE EARNED
Slide:- 14 SUCCESS MUST BE ACHIEVED.
• J.K. ROWLING SUCCESS MUST BE FOUGHT AFTER.
− Best known for writing the international Slide:- 17
best-selling mega-hit book series Harry Potter!  Stay in your own circle :
− More than 500 million copies worldwide! − Circle of Concern( factors we cannot control):
− Harry Potter was rejected 12 times before being • Actions of others( what if they don’t like it)
published. • Opinions of others( What will they think of
− In 2008, J.K. Rowling was asked to address the me?)
Harvard Commencement: • My weaknesses( I am not good at public
speaking, singing, organizing)

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 Slide:- 18 compete with these students? They have
− Circle of influence (Factors we can control) everything! I'll never be able to out-perform them.
• My strengths and resourcefulness( I'm a good They will get better jobs and a better life..."
communicator, manager, writer etc) Slide:- 22
• My actions (I can be disciplined, punctual,  How can you get out of the Circle of Concern?
Hardworking, etc) • "When I see my father tonight, I am going to force
• My thoughts and behaviours( I can be positive, him to buy me a nice phone, better clothes and a
confident) sports bike so I can fit in with these students."
Slide:- 19 OR
− the circle of influence and circle of concern is a tool • "Forget it! I'm a common person who is supposed
created by Stephen Covey, Author of “7 habits of to live a common life. There is no scope for a
Highly Effective People” glamorous life for me. Just accept it."
People who fail tend to live in the Circle of Concern. OR
This is a place where you are constantly concerned • "A balloon flies because of the helium inside, not
with Factors that are outside of your control and as because of what colour it is on the outside. Who
a result, you are more likely to fail. cares if 1 doesn't have fancy things or speak good
People who succeed live in the circle of influence. English? I will fly in the sky of success because of
This is a place where you recognise that there are my self-confidence and inner strength!"
factors outside of your control and you concentrate S0, don't be concerned with the things that are out
your efforts on the things you can control, resulting of your control. Focus on the things within your
in success influence.
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Slide:- 20 ▪ “No person has ever done it… I will be the first
− “ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I one”
cannot change; courage to change the things I can; ▪ Who cares if I fail? Who cares what people
and wisdom to know the difference.” say? I should try at least
-Reinhold Niebuhr ▪ I won’t let excuses hold me back any longer
Slide:- 21 ▪ I won't let failure define me. I CAN DO IT.
▪ I tried my best and failed. But that won't stop
 Get out of the Circle Of Concern!
me from trying again.
“Hahahaha…”
▪ Impossible? No way! Ultimately I will succeed
You look over to the group of students sitting a few
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tables down from yours at The Den, laughing at
• Essential:
someone's joke. That table is full of the coolest
students at the university. Everyone is wearing − The significance of failures is that they can help us
fancy clothes, just like in a magazine. A couple of grow and become stronger in the long term. If used
the students are chatting on their iPhones. The correctly, failures can lead to greater success.
others are all talking to each other in rapid English − Don't be concerned with factors that are out of
they sound perfectly like foreigners. your control. Focus on the factors within your
You look at your own table to find that you are influence.
sitting by yourself. Your clothes are worn and old - Slide:- 25
they would never be Jai Swaminarayan
found in a magazine. You are eating a snack you
brought from home because you could never afford
to buy something from the cafe. As you hear the
students speaking in English, you regret having
studied at a Gujarati-medium school. But it's not
like you could have afforded an English-medium
school anyway. As you consider your circumstance,
you think to yourself, - "How will I ever be able to