failure
Sign in to savethumb|"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
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Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and it's typically seen as the opposite of success. What counts as failure depends on the situation and who's judging it—one person's failure might be another person's success, especially in competitive situations.
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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 that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.
It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria or heuristics to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.