Failure (failure)
Under failure refers to when a target is not achieved, so if something fails and not the desired, intended success has.
There are numerous verbs with the same or similar meaning for this, for example fail , stumble, fail to prevail , strand and fall . The word comes from the 17th century; it was formed from the noun Scheiter (from log and (wooden) log, to go to pieces).
Examples
Someone can fail in very different contexts, for example with their ideas and plans, with a lawsuit in court, with a vote, with an escape and with a competition. Conferences, experiments, operations, reforms, careers and human relationships also fail. Something can also be declared a failure, such as negotiations.
Most of the time, the word is used with a more or more negative connotation, ie as an accusation and reproach that something or someone was unsuccessful. It should be noted that, as a rule, only those who become active and try something - often for good reasons - can fail. Without such attempts there would be a standstill. A failure can, however, become a success, usually through a new system and through changed strategies.
Study to failure
In 2014/2015 researchers around Andreas Kuckertz, Christoph Mandl and Martin P. Allmendinger ( University of Hohenheim ) dealt with the topic and attitudes towards it, especially with a view to thinking in companies. Using an online panel, they surveyed 2027 German citizens between 18 and 67 years of age. Your study “Good mistakes, bad mistakes” shows that Germans are quite risk-averse . 42 percent of respondents agreed with the sentence: "You shouldn't start a business if there is a risk of failure."
On the other hand, almost 80 percent said that there is something positive about failure. That they are a possible source of self-reflection and reflection and that they can lead to positive results. With age, the positive attitude towards failure decreases. Only 45.2 percent of 60 to 67-year-olds think that failure can also have something good. The 18 to 29 year olds, however, have a completely different attitude. Of them, 55 percent see failure as something good.
The literature on the topic deals primarily with the causes of failure (e.g. lack of experience, time pressure, frictional losses, insufficient coordination, poor communication and creativity, impatience) for very different areas (including economics, politics, medicine, human relationships) and with the opportunities to learn from mistakes and to achieve success.
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
museum
In Los Angeles, California, and Helsingborg , Sweden , there is a “Museum of Failure”. The Swedish Museum shows around 70 failed and unsuccessful inventions. Samuel West is the founder and director.
Literature (chronological)
- Uwe Böschemeyer: How you will most certainly fail when you age. Ecowin, Elsbethen (Austria) 2017, ISBN 978-3-7110-0113-9
- Sarah Bosetti: I'm very pretty, you just don't see it that way. From someone who set out to learn how to fail. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-63317-1
- Oskar Holzberg: New key phrases of love. What relationships fail and what makes them succeed. DuMont, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-8321-8981-5
- Charles D. Pépin: The Beauty of Failure. Small philosophy of defeat. Translated from the French by Caroline Gutberlet. Carl Hanser, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25669-9
- Joanne K. Rowling : Which is important. The benefit of failure and the power of the imagination. Translated from the English by Klaus Fritz. Carlsen, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-551-58777-0
- Atilla Vuran, Nina Harbers: To communicate means to fail. Emotional receptiveness and authorization. Jünger Medien, Offenbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-7664-9946-2
- Erik Kessels: Almost perfect. The art of failing unrestrainedly. How ideas arise from mistakes. Translated from the English by Sofia Blind. DuMont, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-8321-9913-5
- Henry Marsh: For life and death. A brain surgeon tells of healing, hope and failure. Translated from the English by Katrin Behringer. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04678-9
- Susanne Weingarten (Red.): Failure properly. Spiegel Wissen, issue 1/2015
- Peter Scholl-Latour : The Curse of Evil Deed. The failure of the West in the Orient. Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-549-07412-1
- Daron Acemoglu , James A. Robinson: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. From the American by Bernd Ruhlkötter. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19558-9
- Bärbel Wardetzki: Vain love. How narcissistic relationships fail or can succeed. Kösel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-466-30862-0
- Konstantin Wecker : The Art of Failure. A thousand impossible ways to find happiness. Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04967-2