{"id":57589,"date":"2021-06-05T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=57589"},"modified":"2021-06-04T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:18:23","slug":"philosophy-three-keys-to-learning-to-overcome-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/philosophy-three-keys-to-learning-to-overcome-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: three keys to learning to overcome failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the first verdicts from the\u00a0Parcoursup<\/a>\u00a0post-baccalaureate orientation site\u00a0, the period for competition and exam results begins.\u00a0Many young people will see their wishes come true.\u00a0But many others will be disappointed.\u00a0The impossibility of integrating the school for which they were preparing, or the course which seemed ideal to them to carry out their personal projects represents a failure, sometimes difficult to bear.<\/p>\n

Is it then possible to teach your children to overcome this type of disappointment?\u00a0Three great philosophers can enlighten us, giving us elements for a rational economy of desire.<\/p>\n

With Descartes, define the limits of his desires<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In the dictionary, failure is simply defined as the opposite of success.\u00a0But, beyond this obviousness, what does success mean, if not precisely to obtain the result that one hoped for?\u00a0There would therefore be no success except by reference to an expectation.\u00a0So that failure does not exist in absolute terms.\u00a0Like success, it is always relative to a particular goal, previously valued.<\/p>\n

We can therefore already wonder about the relevance of this valuation, depending on the resources (of all kinds) available, and the objective probability of achieving the goal.\u00a0It is by no means a question of forbidding all dreams, or all ambition.\u00a0But can all of our desires be satisfied?<\/p>\n

Because failure is in a way the horizon of human action, insofar as success involves many things that do not depend on us.\u00a0You have to know how to mourn your omnipotence, and get rid of the illusion that anything is possible.\u00a0Such is the wisdom, of Stoic inspiration, that\u00a0Descartes<\/a>\u00a0advocates in the \u201cthird maxim\u201d of his \u201cmorality by provision\u201d, in the\u00a0Discourse on Method<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0:<\/p>\n

“My third maxim was to always try to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires than the order of the world … so that after we have done our best touching the things which are external to us, all that failure to succeed is in our eyes absolutely impossible.\u00a0“<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who have done their best, failure is never more than an event, admittedly unfortunate, as contrary to their hopes, but of which there is no need to be unhappy oneself.\u00a0The main thing is to have done everything possible.\u00a0This is enough to know what Spinoza will call “contentment of the soul”, synonymous with “beatitude”.<\/p>\n

With Pascal, prioritize your dreams<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Are not some failures more serious than others?\u00a0We can appreciate the seriousness in terms of the value given to the goal.\u00a0But this value can be judged either in the light of simple subjective preferences (I would be so happy to become a member of the prestigious “Grand Corps” of Inspectors of Finance!);\u00a0or within the framework of a hierarchical scale, defining \u201corders\u201d of success, more or less important according to a clear and defensible principle.<\/p>\n

The severity of failure, like the importance of success, will then be a function of the intrinsic value of the \u201cspace for success\u201d in which they occur.\u00a0This is what Pascal, in his\u00a0Pens\u00e9es<\/em><\/a>\u00a0, invites us to understand with his distinction of the\u00a0\u201cthree orders\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0: \u201cThe order of bodies, the order of spirits, the order of charity.\u00a0“.\u00a0Each “order” has its own size:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatness of people of spirit is invisible to kings, to the rich, to captains, to all those great men of the flesh.<\/em><\/p>\n

The greatness of wisdom\u2026 is invisible to the carnal, and to people of spirit.\u00a0These are three different orders of gender.\u00a0“(Thoughts)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “great ones of the flesh” see through the eyes of the body;\u00a0the “great geniuses”, through the eyes of the mind;\u00a0the wise and the saints, through the “eyes of the heart”.\u00a0What is a failure in a high school competition, in the eyes of the mind?\u00a0And, much more, in the “eyes of the heart”?<\/p>\n

“Carnal grandeur”, “spiritual” grandeur, “wisdom”: you have to know what you “admire”, in what “order” you want to be, and therefore learn to see things with the right eyes.<\/p>\n

With Spinoza, learn to reinvent yourself<\/strong><\/h4>\n

But a failure, even in the order of charity, does it not remain nonetheless a failure?\u00a0Failure, in a way, slows down the course of desire.\u00a0Isn’t it, therefore, bad in itself?\u00a0We are invited to better define the desire.\u00a0With his\u00a0Ethics<\/em>\u00a0, Spinoza will help us to progress in his knowledge.<\/p>\n

For him, \u201cdesire is the tendency accompanied by the awareness of this same tendency\u201d.\u00a0The \u201ctendency (appetitus)\u201d is \u201cnothing other than the very essence of man\u201d.\u00a0So much so that “Desire is the very essence of man … that is to say, the effort by which man perseveres in his being”.<\/p>\n

The essential thing is therefore to preserve the \u201cconatus\u201d, or the effort of being to\u00a0persevere in one’s being<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Desire is always, in itself, positive, to such an extent that “happiness consists for man in being able to preserve his being”.\u00a0What then does reason recommend to us?<\/p>\n

“Reason demands that each one loves himself, that he seeks what is really useful for him, that he desires all that really leads man to a greater perfection, and, in a general way , that each, according to his power, strives to preserve his being.\u00a0“<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then, no failure should be able to extinguish desire.\u00a0Failure is only a passing brake.\u00a0If it marks a stopping time on a particular line of development, it in no way signifies a stop of development itself.\u00a0This one will continue by circumventing the obstacle, as the stream circumvents and passes the rock which only delays it for a short moment.<\/p>\n

The main thing is to live, and to move forward, with the desire to improve oneself (in an \u201corder\u201d worthy of being valued).\u00a0You have to teach your child to keep the desire to want, to always try to surpass himself, and thus experience lasting happiness …<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong>Charles Hadji is an <\/span>Honorary Professor (Educational Sciences) at the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes (UGA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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