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Anup Kochhar People. Society. Their joys and sufferings are the most significant motivations to write. Consider myself as part of a community trying to highlight a…morePeople. Society. Their joys and sufferings are the most significant motivations to write. Consider myself as part of a community trying to highlight an issue which is beyond self.

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Anup Kochhar The first book that an author writes, it is believed, is drawn heavily form his or her own life. The idea of “The Failure Project” happened as a culmi…moreThe first book that an author writes, it is believed, is drawn heavily form his or her own life. The idea of “The Failure Project” happened as a culmination of twenty years of stumbling blocks popping one after the other in an uncanny regularity.

The immediate trigger however was the spate of young people , as young as seven years of age, killing themselves off every day because they failed to perform at school, relationships or in life. The newspapers were and I am afraid, still are full of such cases. It is really painful to observe that people take failure so seriously at so early in life. Sometimes a bit too seriously than success itself. Success fails to provide the quantum of happiness which is much less than the pain and anguish which failure brings. Success comes and is forgotten soon. Failure stays on.

I could associate with their pain and sufferings but not their motivation to end it all. It is really tragic. The objective of “The Failure Project” is to explore the different dimensions of a force that is considered so negative and to somehow channelize it towards a constructive realization something like fire.
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Personality: Different Strokes

We are forever pushing our kids to study more, harder, spend less time on useless extra curriculars . All because we are convinced that this is the path to success. We seem to be certain that this is the grammar, the rule book to success. Follow and you cannot lose.
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“The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: failure, fear-of-death, fear-of-failing, fear-of-failure, greatest-fear-of-man, man-s-greatest-fear

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“We need to appreciate that being different is not the same as being wrong. A ‘wrong’ answer is just a different answer, a different perspective which could be used to address the issue differently. Unfortunately, our obsession with the ‘right’ answer makes it difficult to see the importance of an alternative answer.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: alternatives, different-perspective, right-wrong

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“Failure per se is not a disease but it can trigger anxiety, depression and even suicide. If failure can strike anyone, how can we handle it? Medical science has a well-defined mechanism in place for dealing with diseases – it identifies the symptoms and then prescribes a methodology for their management. Psychologists and Psychiatrists have management practices for dealing with anxiety and depression. But do we have a method for dealing with failure?”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: failure, failure-a-disease, fear-of-failing, fear-of-failure, greatest-fear-of-man, man-s-greatest-fear, management-of-failure

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“The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: failure, fear-of-death, fear-of-failing, fear-of-failure, greatest-fear-of-man, man-s-greatest-fear

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“The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: psychology, self-awareness, self-help, self-improvement, social-psychology

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tags: failure, failure-a-disease, fear-of-failing, fear-of-failure, greatest-fear-of-man, man-s-greatest-fear, management-of-failure

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“Failure is like flu. It can happen to anyone. Just as it is difficult to find a person who hasn’t had the flu, it is difficult to find someone who has not been stuck by failure at some time.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

tags: failure, fear-of-death, fear-of-failing, fear-of-failure, greatest-fear-of-man, man-s-greatest-fear

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“Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.”
― Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear

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