🥊 Mentorship Minute: Failure Acceptance

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Student suicide, due to academic failure, has spiked in India. Since when has failure become something we feel like we must punish ourselves for?

If you are contemplating suicide, I need to stop you right now and tell you that I CARE ABOUT YOU.

Please get counsel from a professional at the international suicide hotline resource. http://ibpf.org/resource/list-international-suicide-hotlines

I read about the sad news in an article posted by business insider 11.22.2019.

https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/student-suicides-spike-significantly-at-iit-delhi-iit-hyderabad-iit-madras-iit-guwahati/articleshow/72184388.cms

Academic failure?!?! Failure is a good thing. It is what perpetuates human growth. We, as humans, must fail and continually maintain imbalance to learn and move forward.

I used to sell books door to door. Every "no" got me closer to a "yes."

Failure is a good thing. Our goal is to make fewer mistakes in life, but eliminating failure is the holy grail we will never find.

If I didn't allow myself to fail, I wouldn't be the person I am today. You got to be able to run experiments to see what works and what doesn't.

How do we un- f*%$ this situation where academic failure is something we need to punish ourselves for?

I hope as a tech community. We can help change the perception of failure. I hear this topic and can't refuse to take the opportunity to share this information and hopefully trigger some action to combat this atrocious culture around failure being negative.

We ultimately only have control over ourselves and how we respond to things, but I must also reiterate we are responsible for each other. Regardless of race, religion, sex, we need to remind our neighbors that we care for them and love them.

If we don't tell our neighbors that we love them, how do they know that we love them? We need to become more significant than this problem if we are going to survive. I can only hope that this trend reverses. Please allow me to reiterate here that I sincerely love each one of you. Thank you for your attention. My gratitude is overflowing.

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