I often think the issue is less of how to manage failure than how to manage success. I feel success management is a subject that deserves as much, if not more, attention than crisis management. It should be treated as crisis management. For the simple reason that success could lead to a crisis. There is a tendency to get overwhelmed, awed, blinded byone's success. Other people's success may be inspiring or daunting but your own can make you myopic.

Because far too many times (for my comfort) it has happened that I succeed at a certain task, a set goal, or at a certain level, and I fail to see the dangers ahead. Really, I have to be constantly vigilant! If one is not watchful, success can blind and desensitise, it can choke you. On the other hand, if you don't allow yourself to get cowed by it, failure alerts you to the threats prowling about you. If you are aware of your own vulnerability, your weakness vis a vis a predatory world, you will learn to acquire defence and attack mechanisms. You see it all the time in the plant and animal kingdom—protective colouring, or devices, defence and attack mechanisms.