You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) Original name of Belle Miriam Silverman. An American operatic soprano and general manager of the New York City Opera after her retiring from singing. She began performing on stage in 1933 at the age of 4. In 1936, she began using Beverly Sills as her stage name, and in 1945, she began singing professionally. Sills has also leveraged her fame to further her charitable work to prevent and treat birth defects. Part of her signature roles: Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville Violetta in Verdi's La traviata Elisabetta in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux When we fail... When we overcome failure, it is easy for us to develop negative emotions. After we have worked hard to complete a task, if we fail, we feel psychologically unbalanced because our efforts did not bring us a relative gain. However, we should not be afraid of failure because it is common at all stages of our life path. Try to learn from our failures, and all the lessons we learn will become the basis for our next success. Treating these failures as a lesson can help us feel less stressed as we face the unknown future. If we do not try... We then have no way to know result. Even we fail in the action, we know the result of it. If we do not take any action, we can never know whether we can success or not. In this case, we will always have the idea that: will I success if I try to do it? In order to try, the first thing we need to do is not to be afraid of failure. There are many reasons why we stop trying, and one of the most common reasons is the fear of failure. Therefore, in order to be more willing to try, we need to learn to deal with the fear of failure. Treat failure as a lesson Finding and understanding the root cause of the failure and then prevent it happened in the next time. If we can learn from failure, it is already not a failure, but a lesson. can face failure without fear. Not dwelling on failure The reason we fear failure is that we sometimes magnify the effects of failure too much. Sometimes failure is not so serious, or others do not care so much about it. Very often, the most important failure may be our own failure, so try not to dwell on failure, as long as we adjust our mindset, we can face failure without fear. How to success? When we try to do something, we have to try to find the best way to do it. Be prepared, then work hard for success. If we have done our best, even if we fail, we will not regret it. The only way we need to care is how to learn from our failures and then succeed the next time.