If you’ve been on the Internet for more than a week, you’ve run across videos, images and blocks of text that spread like wildfire. These are called “memes.” One of the most popular is simply called “FAIL.”
There are countless examples of FAIL available. Here’s a short clip of an exercise technique gone wrong:
That’s pretty painful. In fact, the FAIL meme is so common you can see an endless stream of people using it on the microblogging service Twitter:
There’s no question that our culture is obsessed with failure. We do love to laugh at people who stumble. Yet this is not an admirable part of the FAIL meme. Instead, we should focus on the pride of making mistakes. Watch a few of the Tweets above and see who is proclaiming their failure.
Isn’t admitting that we make mistakes the first step toward finding success?