In our modern, fast-living age with an open circulation of benefits, the need for easy failure and the appreciation of its philosophy augments. Unlike the accelerating path of success, a very uninteresting trajectory, failure has one definition and a universal, timeless application. Failure is a pursuit that we are unaware of; it attracts imperfection and it is a much needed pest control for the inflated egos of today. Failing is rather easy; that is indisputable. However, truly, completely, perfectly failing is rather difficult, even impossible for some.
Nevertheless, a prolonged study and personal, experienced observations have revealed that the effective process towards failure can be compressed into three major steps:
1. Trade your standards and values
It is unnecessary to be aware of your standards and values in order to succeed in this failure of character, yet being aware and even living by them for a considerable time could lead to a more significant compromise. To illustrate, such values could include dignity, modesty, respect, gratitude, kindness, generosity, loyalty and onwards. You may trade them with an abundance of human flaws, but my personal favorite is stupidity as it carries the same currency and weight as all of the pre-mentioned assets combined.
Many fall into the mistake of selling their cheap values for the inexpensive quality of selfishness. It can be likened to trading a pencil for a designer purse full of gold. Selfishness is a sold-out quality among the richest of failures and the poorest of winners. Do not underestimate its power and the magnitude of its consequences as it brings you closer to failure.
2. Distance yourself from improvement
Improvement is a tiresome desire. It is a false desire. It only pulls you farther away from your real, untainted self. The simplest way to surround and ground it is to do nothing, to remain on the continuous, y-equals-a-number line on the academic graph. A more difficult method to avoid improvement is to take a sine/cosine approach, moving in up and down waves at insignificant intervals. If you did not comprehend the mathematical references, you may be on the right track.
However, finding difficulty in the comprehension of math principles is considered by some to be a victory for the creative and linguistic wings of consciousness. This is a reason this point is a controversy and a reason I may also state that you are, in fact, not failing but flourishing in decisive giftedness (an unfortunate obstacle in the journey towards failure).
3. Ignore the failures that do eventually come your way
If failures were to be ranked from the most perfect to the least, ignoring failures would be the most perfect form of failing. As victors would inspiringly assure, giving their past successes no mind did not allow them to progress to greater, horrid accomplishments. The same does not apply to failures. You must ignore what they teach you, as lessons and learning are linked to the pre-stated point of improvement. You must absorb the doubts they pose and the self-pity they impose. In this way, you can make sure that you have remained in the comatose state of failure, a state many have found challenging to obtain.
Once you find yourself deprived of your values, wasting your words on worthless causes and obsessing over success, ignoring your failures, you may then and only then know that you have failed.
Disclaimer:Such a severe failure is not permanent. It can be reversed, so watch out.