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G. What is Failure?
Failure is defined as not achieveing enough higher goals, and then not pursuing and achieving the ultimate pursuit of life that is satisfaction and happiness.
Why oposite to success is not failure?
When you set a goal to achieve, but you fail to overcome the challenges, roadblocks and defeat competitor, then that is not failure. Because success is an emotion, which is a story, not achieveing the goal yet is also an emotion as that is also a story. The success story ends with high dopamine, but the not-yet-successful story doesn’t end with high dopamine. Howver not-yet-successful also has memories, events, feelings.
Because till you achieve the goal you set for yourself, brain keeps pushing you towards the goal till you either achieve it, or give up on it, not-yet-successful story serves as the learning for the brain. In the next journey to the goal, your brain would remain more careful not to perform the things it performed in its first inability to achieve the set goal.
Therefore oposite to success in achieving a goal is not failure, but learnings.
As we know that inability to keep achieving enough higher goals and thereafter inability to become happy and satisfied is failure, failure can be defined as an inverse function of success and satisfaction.
Failure ∝ 1/(Satisfaction+success)
Therefore, if you achieve nothing failure will be immense but not infinity, because not succeeding in achieving a goal will also give you some satisfaction through learning.
However if one never sets a big enough goal and never pursued that goal, then there will be no success, no learning, and obviously no satisfiction, and thus failure=∞.
Therefore the biggest failure is not setting big enough goal and pursuing the goal.