Claudia Carlson Letter 'Sweet Schadenfreude'

Success is boring and doesn’t prepare you for the next time. Failure on the other hand prepares you and forces you to learn from your mistakes. Trying to make the natural order different doesn’t help and making you destroy that can and might jeopardize the fact that if you are successful or not in the future.

This is the story of me, Anna Carter, before and after it happened. “After what happened?” you might wonder. I’ll get to that if I have time. But for now, let’s talk about before.

Michael Jordan was cut from the school’s basketball team. Steve Jobs was fired from his own company. Abraham Lincoln lost eight elections. Thomas Edison failed more than ten thousand times when trying to create the light bulb and was told by his teachers he was “too stupid to learn anything” and  JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series got rejected from twelve major publishers. Failure did not stop these people to become successful and reach their full potential. They were all once just ordinary people who saw failure as a true path to success.

I do believe that any obstacle or disadvantage can turn into something good. I know this because people learn from their mistakes. Some people give up or lose hope when they are encountering an obstacle. Anything can be make up by thinking or a wise decision.

When you succeed you need to faliure and successful person will tell you that they had failed, but those failures are what made them successful.People with success can lead to other success,this is shown with many people around the world in many different industries.This is mainly shown by the music industries,like other artist shout out or make song with unknown or not well know artist.They had overcome many obstacles an example is school,family problems,and negatively of review of loves ones and friends.One example of this is shown filmmaker Cole bennett’s,his failure can be instructive by teaching or helping others to become more successful than even him.

There are two kinds of people: the ones that are willing to give up after seeing the first obstacle in their way and the ones that are willing to turn the same obstacle in their favor. Any problem, may it be an obstacle or a disadvantage, can always be turned into something good if you believe you can do it. All you have to do in order to accomplish this is to see with another perspective all the good there is in any problem, no matter how hard or impossible it seems to be.

Quite often you hear that we do not grow without failure; that failure is what teaches us a new skill and how to then succeed. I was not familiar with the quote, “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant,” by Horace, however I think this quote is true. To me, this means that when someone has some kind of disadvantage, that person can use the challenge to his advantage through self-reflection, determination, and hope. Every person faces an obstacle, usually many and of various degrees of challenge, and although you cannot control the situation, you can control your reaction. Those of us that learn from adversity take our time to figure out how to approach the problem in a new manner. We recognize that one barrier is not a reason to abandon our course. We think outside the box for how to overcome the challenge. We learn from the first failure and we regroup for the next approach. Failure teaches you how to define yourself rather than how others define you. All four of the

Have you ever had to make a very important decision in your life that can make something better or worse? In the novel, The Adoration Of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson, a girl named Allys had to choose to either tell the authorities about Jenna Fox, or not to. Allys was motivated by a lifestyle she follows, it affected her in a life/death situation, and it affected most in a good way, while others in a poor way. First of all, Allys was motivated by her life of rule following to snitch on Jenna and to "do the right thing". She realized that Jenna was illegal to have

“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage” (W.Clemente Stone). Many people have disadvantages, but many use their disadvantages to make them into an advantage. People see it and take as a chance to change. They also see it as motivation to become successful. It motivates people to do better and accomplish the goals they set on themselves.

Laura Hillenbrand is telling us the story of Louis Zamperini. She begins from his childhood and goes on through his life with the things he does prior to the war. Although she explains these things, the main conflict in the book is Louis’ survival through the war and after. Louis learned many things about himself growing up and taught himself many key characteristics that would later save his life.

I know you are thinking why I've picked you, a friend of mine her middle name is Judith and I miss her because she got married and moved to live in LA.

Our daughter Vivien Braun is scheduled for your class this year. Thank you for reading the attached letter explaining a bit about her medical condition and how it impacts her learning. She has Multiple Sclerosis. Many of you may have already had her in class in previous years and have had a chance to read last year's update. This year my husband and I thought you may like to hear best from Vivien herself. She was recently featured on a site called "Oscar the MS Monkey". This is a facebook site that features teens and children with pediatric MS. She was highlighted this month. So, I've also attached a copy of what she wrote. They have a facebook page if you want to see the pictures and other children's stories. I wish you all a happy new school

I believe it to be true of the whole human race that when something pushes you down you look to find a way out of it. We always try our best to overcome adversity and that can make us stronger. In many cases the workers that a lot of us pay to clean and cook are faced with adversity from the start. As young kids growing up having very little it’s difficult to get out of

One might ask themselves how being continuously successful can make a person or agency more likely to suffer a disaster. If they

Success or failure in life is created by how you think. A mindset that is fixed in stone believing you either have talents and abilities or you don't leads to failure.