Why do some people fail every time even despite working hard and despite giving more than 100% efforts?

 The size of your failure often defines the size of your success. Fail early and fail Big time.

Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." Before coming to film industry Super Star Rajinikanth - performed various blue-collar jobs in the cities of Bangalore and Madras, including that of a coolie, carpenter, and bus conductor. It all depends on your attitude, how you take your failures, and what you do about them. Your strength doesn’t come from winning, your struggles develop your strength.

I can understand, it's really worrisome if someone keeps on failing even after giving 200%. My dear friend, in such a situation, I feel one needs to do a real-time assessment of what's going wrong. Now since you have not shared any specific case, it's difficult to make an assessment. However, we would take a holistic approach to look at the issue and examine the probable reasons.

One could face failure even after giving 200%, the following could be some of the circumstances.

• If your goal is very high. Suppose you are trying to get a position in the Indian Cricket Team, where thousands of other top-class players are also trying. And your 200% efforts may fall short as someone else could be giving much higher effort. You have to find an upper edge.
• It is very important to know where to play and how to win. It may so happen that you are only focusing on your game, but possibly something else is getting overlooked. Say a player of equal caliber from a different state that has better lobbying capacity might get selected for the national team and you get rejected for no fault of yours.
• Suppose in your team you are the only good player and others are mediocre. Your team wouldn't qualify for a national-level tournament and you would miss the opportunity to show your talent and come in to focus.
• You would be practicing with the same weak team members missing the opportunity to practice with the best in class and fail to make further improvements.
• You will also not be having the opportunity to train under the best coaches. Or not training under the right coach.
• Possibly you are working with substandard equipment affecting your results.
• Possibly you are not analyzing the reasons for your past failure and taking corrective.
• Possibly you aren't seeking expert guidance to make improvements or improve your skill set.
• Our failure could be because of multiple reasons for a manufacturing company it could be raw materials, process, equipment, technology, people, and environment both external and internal. For an organization you could use the Fishbone analysis method, you could go for a SWOT analysis as well to arrive at the right reason or reasons.
• Possibly you are trying too hard when all you need to do is a small push. You don’t need a sword to cut your beard, all you need a small razor blade.

• Are you resisting change or proactive to change?
• Possibly you have not built up your ecosystem or support system.

• Possibly you are not going beyond your comfort zone.
• Possibly you are not segregating your short-term, intermediate, and long-term goals. You can’t straightway reach your larger goal. There are bound to be intermediate stages.
• Possibly you are trying to push the wrong stone, or pushing from the wrong direction.

Just working hard doesn't help all the time, unless you are focusing your efforts in the right direction. It's very important to identify the actual reason for failure. If there are multiple reasons, then one has to prioritize depending on the severity of the impact as well as depending on the availability of resources.