FAILURE

1 What is failure

Failure is defined as a lack of success or the inability to meet an expectation.

2 What are pillars of failure

Those who did not fear failures, learn from their mistakes and try again and again will make failures for them the pillar of success. Every successful person has failed at least once.

3 importance of failure

Failures teach us flexibility, adaptability, and how to overcome obstacles. It teaches us to use change to our advantage. It keeps us nimble and helps us adopt that growth mindset.

4 What we learn from failure

From failure, we learn resiliency. It's hard to not learn how to build resilience after a failure, especially if you're determined to overcome failure. Resilience is an important life skill to build. And when you build (and learn) resilience, it helps you in other ways, too.

5 What are the fear

Atychiphobia (Fear of Failure) Atychiphobia is an intense fear of failure. It may cause you to put off or avoid any activity or scenario that has the potential for an unsuccessful outcome. Someone with this condition may be scared to try new things, take risks or embrace growth for fear of failure.

6 How we solve failure problems

1 Accept feelings and emotions. …

2 Failure does not mean your life is going to be over. …

3 Learn from failure and be constructive. …

4 Find inspiration. …

5 Don't give up. …

6 Be passionate. …

7 Surround yourself with positive people. …

8 Avoid isolating yourself.

7 Failed IT systems at Capita fuel fears of cyber-attack on crucial NHS provider

Computer systems have abruptly stopped working at the outsourcing group Capita, knocking out council phone lines and triggering fears that the company that runs crucial operations for the NHS and the military could be under cyber-attack.

Capita staff are understood to have been unable to access IT systems since the early hours of Friday, and an early investigation has yet to establish the cause.

The outage exposes the vulnerability of critical public services to cyber incidents – and the increasing role of outsourcing companies in delivering those services. Capita is one of the government’s biggest suppliers, with £6.5bn of public sector contracts spanning London’s congestion charge system to recruiting soldiers for the army.

A spokesperson for the company, who was unable to access their own email, said: “We are aware of a technical issue with our systems, which we are investigating.”

In a later statement, issued on Friday evening, a Capita spokesperson said: “We would like to reassure any customers whose services have been affected that we are making good progress and working closely with our technical partners to swiftly resolve the issues.”

Capital’s customers include the London boroughs of Barnett, and Barking and Dagenham, and South Oxfordshire. Their websites displayed messages on Friday saying that phone lines for their benefits, council tax and business rates call centers were down.

Capital also has its own cybersecurity division, and claims to block 1 m spam emails a year from entering school networks.

People at sites including critical national infrastructure have resorted to using radios, pens and paper, the source said.

Some employees still have access to computers and email, and the company said its investigation was in the early stages and that it was too soon to tell if the failure was caused by a cyber-attack.

Capital was still unsure if hackers were behind the outage on Friday afternoon, but there is no evidence of a data breach as yet, according to a source close to the company. The problem is chiefly affecting the Office 365 program suite, which includes email, Teams virtual meetings and Word and Excel, but clients’ systems appear to be unaffected.

According to sources at Capital, company systems went down at 4am, but many staff members were not aware until they tried to log on at 7am. Employees received a text from the company at 8.45am explaining that there was a company-wide difficulty.

One staff member, who asked not to be named, said they were unable to log into their laptop, with their usual password rejected as “incorrect”. They said employees could not access Ca pita’s systems or any other computer programs.

Staff were told by text: “We are urgently investigating this and will provide you with an update shortly. Please do not attempt to access via VPN or submit password recovery requests.”

The outage, first reported by the Times, triggered concern within the UK government because Ca pita, which employs more than 50,000 people in the UK, is one of the government’s most important suppliers.