Sat. Feb 8th, 2025

From TCNEWS

As the world celebrates the year 2024 International Day for Failure, a Sociocultural organization known as Igbo Vanguard Group, IVG has counseled Nigerians not to allow the missteps made to limit them but to focus on the brave step taken afterwards as such counts.

According to the records available, the importance of International Day for Failure which is annually celebrated on October 13, lies in changing how we think about failure.

Interacting with our correspondent in Umuahia Abia State on the significance of the event in the present society bedeviled with economic challenges, the IVG President General, Engr. Dr. James Nnadozie Uchegbuo, said that self-efficacy is important as it plays a critical role in how people feel about themselves and whether or not they successfully achieve their goals in life.

He observed that International Day for Failure does not only help one to shift that failure perspective to something more constructive, but it teaches people, particularly the brave minds that failures are part of the journey to success.

His words, “From my observation, International Day for failure, is a day that encourages everyone to view failures as setbacks and essential steps towards success. It is also true that failure is a word which no individual would want to be associated with. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, things just don’t go as planned. We experience, headaches, challenges, setbacks and outright disappointments, however, it’s important to know that failure itself is not a bad thing, but one’s negative attitude and response towards it”.

Uchegbuo who is also the President General of Ahuwa-Oboro autonomous community, Oboro clan in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, listed out Mercy Johnson Okojie, Michael Adenuga, Muhammadu Buhari, Don Jazzy, Cosmos Maduka, the businessman and founder of Coscharis Group as few famous Nigerians who failed at first, or a number of times, but never gave up till they achieved their goals.

Uchegbuo who also observed that their perseverance, consistency and persistency clearly shown that failure is just a stepping stone and not the end of the road, enjoined Nigerians to see International Day for failure as not only a day that promotes growth and courage but also a day to embrace mistakes and learn from them.

International Day for Failure is a unique celebration that happens every year on October 13. According to the records available, it is originated in Finland in 2010, started by a group of university students

The day encourages everyone to view failures as setbacks and essential steps towards success. It’s a day to embrace mistakes and learn from them, promoting growth and courage.

By NWAMARA

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