Ghanaian broadcaster, MzGee, has offered a piece of advice to Ghanaians dealing with the pressure to succeed.
According to her, it is okay not to win sometimes.
MzGee said failure can serve as a powerful teacher and a moment to pause, reflect, and come back stronger.
Speaking during her Gee O’clock show, the popular broadcaster said she challenged the stigma around failure and acknowledged the mistakes, stumbles, and the times she had to get back up.
“I realised that truly, truly, what John Maxwell said in his book, sometimes you win, sometimes you learn, is actually true.
“When you’re reading a book, you just read it for the reading’s sake… but when it begins to play out in your own life, you say, ‘oh, yeah, he said that.’ Sometimes you don’t win but you learn. And you don’t always have to win,” she said.
She explained that failure is not just a setback but an opportunity to revisit one’s approach.
“Sometimes you need to fail so you can revisit your notes, look at where you went wrong and then come back so hard,” she said.
While admitting that failure is painful, even something she personally hates, MzGee stressed that the key lies in what one does after failure.
“Go back, take your book, revise, say where did I go wrong? What did I do wrong? How did it go wrong? Why would I use this process again if it went wrong? Let’s try another process,” she urged.
Citing herself, she stated that her resilience and determination motivates her to keep pushing forward.
“I think I’m the most resilient person I have ever known… like rubbish to sandpaper,” she joked, before adding that she always finds a way to “get up, dust myself up and say, we go again.”
For her, failure is not the end of the road but a stepping stone to growth.
“If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself up and try again,” she said, referencing a popular early 2000s R&B hit.
“I have failed a number of times, but I never stayed down,” she added.
She added that the world doesn’t wait, and neither should anyone facing setbacks.
“If you fail, please learn through the process, get up and keep going. It’s not a bad thing to lose. Sometimes just what you do with a failure is what matters. Make sure you learn from it,” she concluded.
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