Abraham Lincoln's 'Meditations On The Letter M'

When I look at the word failure I didn’t see success. But that slowly changed as I read the book What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain Chapter four. Bain, for me and I’m sure many other, have changed our view point on failure being a bad thing. He instead expressed failure as an “opportunity to learn something.” (121) As infants we grow and develop, we learn to walk by falling down a couple hundred times, and we learn to speak by babbling. By trying to walk, and trying to talk, we may fail at first. As an infant, you cannot give up when you are face to face with failure. You must get up and try again to learn. In the book, What the Best College Students Do by Ken Bain he uses people’s experiences and research to explain why failure is an opportunity to learn something new, rather than seeing failure as something bad. He asserts “people who become highly creative and productive learn to acknowledge failures, even to embrace them, and to explore and learn from them.” (100) Failure is important. If we did not get up and try again as infants, we would not be where we are today.

Failure is a part of life. While many see failure as a negative thing, I have started to see it as a situation that can make you a better person. Failure drives me to never make that mistake again. I first realized this when I took my first AP class and AP exam and received a score of 2. This journey all started sophomore year when I took AP World History. I quickly learned that I needed to actually read and take notes to be able to succeed in the class. It took a few poor grades on essays and tests for me to understand this. Despite this new revelation, I still struggled in the class. When it came time to start reviewing and preparing for the exam, I put an immense amount of effort, but not as hard as I should’ve been. Exam day came and

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but rising every time we fail” (Emerson). People fail all of the time. One of the best feelings on this planet is rising after failure. I did this when it came to grades and sports. Thomas Edison did this when it came to inventing the electric light bulb. Success after failure can be accomplished through perseverance and hard work. That is why we should always get back up after

Everyone has experienced failure before. Some people think there is no good side to disappointments. Failure and disappointments can help you grow a learn as a person. Tack Abraham Lincoln for example, he has had a lot of failures. He ran for state legislature and Congress, but he lost both, He also lost eight elections. He began a business but went bankrupt for a long time. With all these disappointments and failures, he still never gave up, but instead he learned from them. Lincoln ran for Congress and state legislature again and won! He might have learned what he did wrong the first time and improved it for the second time. He grew from his past mistakes.

When people fail at something once, they will do everything in their power from failing again. Failure is a strong motivator in school and in life. If a student fails a class, their grade point average, the student will have to repay and retake the class, they will

Throughout my life, I have experienced multiple failures. Putting in countless work towards a goal and not being able to achieve it in the end is a very frustrating experience, but it can also be a lesson for you to learn and become better. A time where I experienced failure was back when I was in middle school. My school will have an assembly at the end of each marking period, and a student from each class would be selected to go on stage and receive an award for their exceptional grades and academic performance. It was my main goal at the time to be chosen for this award, and I would work towards getting straight A's in each class in hopes of achieving this. My efforts were rewarded; my grades were excellent, I was one of the top students

Throughout my life, failure has been a constant reminder of how much I more I have to grow and learn. A time when I have experienced a significant failure was in my Calculus AP class. Before this class I would've thought that math was the easiest subject for me, hover, upon taking this course I've never been more wrong. The failure in this class progressed from a D to and F. I was devastated when I realized how inadequately I was performing, compared to previous successes. I remember studying all night for a test just to receive an F on it anyway. It was then that I realized that I was missing a fundamental step in the problem solving experience. Since I usually make really good grades, the thought of having an F on my progress report was eating

Through out my high school career I never took my education seriously. For most of the four years it was a big blur. I’m not quite sure if it was because of me or if I found myself blaming my surroundings or teachers for my lack of focus and strive to learn. A failure can mean different things to everyone else. Maybe there’s just different types or categories of failures. These failures are meant to teach us something, or motivate us to simply not make these mistakes again.

You can't avoid failure in life. How effective one gets to be is subject to the technique he or she uses to overcome difficulty and failure. If Wright brothers gave up on building the successful plane we won't have such complex modes of transportation that we have in the present day. Presently I look towards something substantially less noteworthy than that. My own particular experience of failure, one particular failure has stood out amongst all other success and failures that I have been through throughout my life. Back when I was a freshman I hugely flunked my exams. Nonetheless, without a doubt, the most

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments" (Henry Ward Beecher). Are failure comes from are non understanding of how things are going to work out,but not giveing effort to your goal. I have failed on so many in my career class, but I work hard to succeed in the class. Sometimes you have to fail to succeed.

“If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.” (“If you've never failed, you've never lived”-video) This video and short statement entails that life is about taking risks and learning from one’s mistakes. Without life’s mistakes, people wouldn’t have the motivation to become better. Failure is a part of life. Failure allows the term, “When you fall, you get back up” come into play, allowing individuals to realize that it is a natural part of life to lose at something; one must simply get back up and try harder. Without failure how would people discover their true potential? Rather than giving failure a negative perspective, society should see it as a part of life that allows for growth and knowledge.

In addition, I also found out that I do not accept failure, which can be a good thing but also a bad thing. Nevertheless, I also found out that I have to stop thinking of things as a success or a failure, there is not a third option in my way of thinking sometimes. However, I came to the understanding that in education, we fall down and get up, fall down and get up and learn from our mistakes, just

The first reason why failure is acceptable in life is that it motivates people to prove themselves. Some people properly think that failure is as an opportunity rather than a barrier. Steve Jobs is one of typical examples. He was a failure as a college dropout. He left Reed College after only 6 months because he could not afford tuition. Although Steve Jobs did not finish his study, he still succeeded because of his the talent and his innovative spirit. Then, he became a person who change the technology world – CEO of Apple Inc. Another example Mark Zuckerberg,

Failure is always an option and sometimes our situation results in that. However, failure is not a promise for complete defeat. The path to success is not always a freshly paved concrete walkway with a handlebar to assist those struggling to get to the end. Some may lose sight of it and wonder off too long to be able to come back and some may stay close to it with a few distractions along the way. It is different for everyone, and my personal path to success had many bumps and detours involved it seems like. Middle and high school were rough, like it is for most people. Many are bullied and find themselves failing classes or becoming distant to their friends ad family, but I had different battle to win.

Hello, I would like to introduce you to a different way of thinking about failure. Most of us know or see successful people in our daily lives. Some of us wonder if we will ever be successful. Some of us think that the successful person has always been this way. I have even heard people comment that success was given to that successful person. Either way you look at it or whatever you think about success. I can assure you most of the successful people you see became successful after some type of failure. Failure to succeed is not about failure; it is about using your failures to achieve success.