1) It is very interesting you mention about the perspective of an outcome. You are right, from an objective front, it is only the result which says something is right or wrong. There are underlying areas in them which makes it a success in other fronts or in allied results. As a simple example, I was trying to get into a job with company A which did not materialise. Objectively, it was a failure. But my end result was to get a job that I like rather than being specific only about a company. Maybe the goal changed with time and I realised that it was not the only way to get to the end result. In my case, job was just a means to go out and do what I liked and try my hands at a profession. I suppose the end result is to start deciphering what we want out of our efforts and tie it less to one specific outcome, but to the possibilities and how we can constantly look at them to serve our needs

2) How we look at an outcome : It is very nice to see this point Abhijit. I think failure and success have become way too easy to define. They all have an internal meaning to us rather than what’s associated by the society. If someone doesn’t score enough marks, it is just an outcome rather than a success or failure. If we spend enough time with what our real success or failures are and go into details of them – we are able to create more opportunities. Again going with the same example of marks, I am sure the final outcome is not about getting more marks or staying ahead of the competition alone. It ties to areas of knowledge, identifying what a student can be passionate about and then we can start creating more opportunities around them.