well even if you succeed at failing you still failed...---------

If you tried and failed, all you did was fail at failing. EPIC FAIL! Off yourself!

Its meaningless because its recursive, never ends and is just the continual switching between two values. Its the same as asking what does E (-1)^n as n goes from zero to infinity converges to. Its a geometric series, E A*r^n; in order to converge |r| has to be < 1.

If you try to fail and succeed at something, you failed at failing that something, and succeeded at that something. You both failed and succeed, but with two different things.

For this kind of question, step back and do not take the statement at face-value. It depends on why do u want to fail.

If you try to fail for e.g. to save someone the humiliation, u have succeeded as it is for a good cause.

But if u try to fail just for the sake of fun, as a meaningless act, then you have failed in life!

If you try to fail and succeed, that means you have succeeded in the attempt to fail. But in a sense you have also had success – by eventually failing. Basically, I agree with DaWolfman that it is a paradox.

The way up and the way down are one and the same T.S. Eliot 1897-1962

But this eventually is based on context or the situation you are in.

For example, if you must fail, you have succeeded. However, if you will fail for a lame reason, you have indeed failed.

you have failed, even if you have succeeded you have only succeeded in failing, which is in fact failing. But what is failing and what is success? they are merely results that is loosely labelled by man and is subjective.