You would think that a Edtech company like Digital Gurukul, with 22850+ students trained across Asia, 20+ awards & 170+ News media features might not have much experience of failure. And yet “celebrate failure” was the advice of Digital Gurukul Founder & CEO – Dr. Raj Padhiyar.
“Unfortunately Indian education system has failed to teach us how to learn from our failures and grow from them. The school system and our education, for the most part, conditioned us to avoid and fear the negative consequences of failures.” says Padhiyar.
He further adds “ Our bad grades in bold red, the disappointed look of our teacher and the worrisome talk from our parents & society (specially Padoswale Gupta ji) who expected more told us how our future depended on our good grades, all added up to make us fear and resent failure more, time after time. With all their good intentions, never did the teachers, nor the parents realized that the end result would become our inability not only to cope with failures later in life but also to learn and grow from them.”
“If i talk about my example – As a Founder of Digital Gurukul. I failed to get the 1st batch of students for 1 year, Can you imagine pain for the 1 year in an unknown city?” says Mr. Padhiyar.
He adds “It might be time to rethink the way we teach our children about failures and start to recondition them to process failures in a mindful way. If there is one thing that all successful people have in common, it is the resilience they have developed in the face of failure, rejection, challenges, and setbacks, and how they have learned to grow from them, becoming along the way, a better version of themselves.”
“When you are trying to create something that doesn’t exist yet, repetitive failures and rejection are part of the process. All those who succeeded learned to believe in themselves. when nobody else did. It seems that the greatest examples of success in the world come not only from those who never gave up but from those who dared to fail greatly.” states Padhiyar.
He concluded by saying,“The fear of failure and what will others think is a mindset that is deeply rooted in India and needs to change. We need to celebrate failures too
