Do Not Hesitate, Try Everything with Your Own Plan
Editor-in-chief Ahn So-hyun
prevoyage@naver.com
When you want to try something new, how many concerns do you have in mind? Perhaps some people put their decisions into action without hesitation. In our lives, we are placed in the reality of challenging various situations, goals, or objects. No one can be an exception, and after challenging something, you will face the consequences of failure or success. The results of the challenge cannot always be good, and there are many cases of people giving up even before the process has come to an end. Failure to achieve a goal by giving up half way through and failure to achieve a goal despite seeing something through to the end will bring very different results. If you give up during the process, then the next time you take on a new challenge you will start with more fear. In other words, abandonment on the way is the same as a failure to get nothing.
On the other hand, if you try your best yet unfortunately still fail, then at least you will have learned a lot of lessons from that failure. Here, failure to achieve the main goal should not be considered a ‘failure’, but should be thought of as an ‘experience’. Christy Mathewson, a famous American baseball player said, “You can learn a little from Victory. You can learn everything from Defeat”. It is okay for you and me to fail. The experience gained from failure is a great driving force in our lives. The realization of any one person reading a book or the Internet cannot be fully applied to myself. Something that you do not experience in person is not your story, but someone else’s story. In other words, the lessons I have gained from my experience could be completely unacceptable to someone else who tries to learn them.
If so, what should be the next step after failing and gaining experience? Prepare more thoroughly. We must make a plan that suits ourselves based on the data obtained by trial and error. An attitude of hesitation or fear before challenging something is the most unnecessary thing. For those who have made plans, challenge is the fastest way to growth. The reason why I can talk about this now is that I have experienced failures both from being prepared and unprepared. Through this, I have formed a habit of making plans before starting each new day. I am not perfect yet, but at least I promise to myself to live a better day than yesterday. Then, I hope you, the person reading this article now, will also not be afraid of challenges and will not be too lazy to make plans.