Failure

thumb|"Failing is not a crime but lack of effort is" – sign on Leh to [[Nubra road, Ladakh]] Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success. The criteria for failure depends on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a failure what another person considers a success, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such

In psychology, confusion is the quality or emotional state of being bewildered or unclear. The term acute mental confusion is often used interchangeably with delirium in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and the Medical Subject Headings publications to describe the pathology. These refer to the loss of orientation, or the ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location and personal identity. Mental confusion is sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness (the loss of linear thinking) and memory loss (the inability to co

model used in risk analysis and risk management illustrates that, with layered security, each layer provides protection from certain types of attacks but has weaknesses

International exhibition of failed products and services

rail crash in Belgium

process to determine the cause or causes of an accident or series of accidents so as to prevent further incidents of a similar kind

aphorism which suggests achieving confidence and competence through imitation and optimism

action in sport or games

measure of the maintainability of repairable items; average time from discovery of a failure to completion of repairs

technique designed to help prepare contingency plans, by identifying the consequential impact of failure on activity plans

sustained ability of a community to use available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations such as disasters

book by Charles Perrow

a company ceasing operations following its inability to make a profit or to bring in enough revenue to cover its expenses

defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure

process in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of one or few parts can trigger the failure of other parts and so on