On October 13, people in Finland created International Day for Failure, putting a twist to the norm and celebrating the importance of failing and trying new things. Calm Collective also ran its first Linkedin Marketing Campaign, #RedefiningFailure on this day to break the stigma and shame around failure across Asia. Accompanying this campaign was a video that featured people across age groups to talk about their perceptions and experiences of failures. In this article Yan Jun shared her journey and perspective working on this campaign.

Fear of failure is said to be one of the greatest barriers to success, and that makes total sense —fear of failure can stop us from making attempts in the first place. But can anyone blame us for fearing failure? Chloris shares some tips that she learnt from her personal experience on how to cope with the fear of failure so that things are just a tad bit easier.

“With every failure that I was met with, my self-worth would crumble just a tiny bit, chipping away like the bricks of a stone wall.”

Failure has its way of making us feel ashamed and embarrassed. So much so that it can affect our self-worth and manifest in many unhealthy ways. Claire opens up about her own experience with failure and how she’s been #RedefiningFailure.