When many people are asked why they did not pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, they will say they failed to fail. Society has painted failure as unacceptable and for losers. The society conditions people to hide failures. Glossy pictures of successful people showing off their glamorous lives on social media put s even more pressure to live life on the straight and safe path where there are minimal risks, and failure is far away. But failure is good. It enables those who have failed to learn from mistakes and gain valuable experiences. Here is why you need to fail to succeed.

It takes away the fear

Failing is like falling sick. It makes you immune to fear to fail. Before one fails, there is the fear that failure could to loss of everything that it is impossible to recover from a fall. The sooner you fail the sooner you realize that you have been living in fear. You become bolder in your undertakings after realizing that it is always possible to recover from a fall, and that getting up on your feet is the more important thing than focusing on the fall.

Failure helps to perfect

You have to observe Olympic athletes to understand the concept of perfection. You have to work hard to perfect your act overlooking defeats, injuries and setbacks until the moves are perfected. Failing helps point out whatever it is that you are doing wrong, and do it better next time. This is how great ventures are made.  Great entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs failed in some ventures but used the lessons in their failures to perfect their other ventures.

You come out stronger

Experiencing failure tests your character in the face of adversity. Whatever lessons you learn from failure in one area, whether professionally or in personal life, you can apply the lessons in other aspects of life.

The trials and errors in   entrepreneurship eventually lead to a methodology that you can rely on in the future. The process of recovering from failure is able to empower you to trust other people and take chances with opportunities that come your way.

Failure can help you decide on your vision

Failure forces you to ask questions on why the failure happened. You reassess your vision and look at it afresh. Was it the right vision? Did you fail because the vision was wrong or your path of action was wrong? Is that vision worth the pain of failure again? If it is then you have a passion to perfect it and you can work on making it successful.