Failure is something most people have experienced. We are all human beings. Being human, we are exposed to experiencing failure. Failure is able to make a person stronger than they had been. I grew up with a bad past. I had an abusive father. He was unfaithful to his wife and neglected his children. My father favors my younger brother. He didn’t want me when he heard of my gender. I considered myself a failure. I wasn’t the child he had wanted. A few years later, my mother left him. She gained sole-custody of me and my brother. One day, he came to class to record me. I was older and understood why he didn’t want to be a part of my life. I became stronger and gained knowledge from the experience. Demi Lovato thought of herself as a failure.
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 allows people to grow and learn from their mistakes. Without failure I would have never been able to learn my true identity and overcome the adversity I had faced. I have faced failure in many forms and each time it affects me and I grow from it, progressing into someone who can defeat all obstacles. I have come to appreciate failure because it has developed me into the person I am today. There is one failure that truly affected me and it was when I was not accepted into the All State Choir.
Failure can be a very difficult thing to cope with. It can be something that makes you or breaks you. I have learned that failure is what defines a person; it shows your motivation to bounce back when things get rough. I have learned from my failure instead of dwelling on it and making myself weaker.
Failure is a difficult concept for many people to accept because it is hard to understand what failure exactly is. The idea of failure can be seen in the concluding chapters of The Great Gatsby when Gatsby fails to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. The issue of failure exists within all people whether they are successful or not. The issue of dealing with failure is a difficult hurdle to overcome for many reasons, which includes ideas
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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.
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In todays society failure is unpreventable. Everyone has failed once or more in their life span. Failure should not be frowned upon but rather looked as a learning experience. There are many obstacles in life including failure, it depends on whether or not you want to give up or push forward to overcome your failures. Everyday individuals encounter failures and many of them succeed.
A negative connotation follows failure like a shadowy figure. Failure, however, is a necessity in order to grow and obtain future success. At seventeen years old, I have had a fairly average rate of failure. I have nothing too outstanding to speak of, of course, but one experience sticks out more than the others as a moment at which my perspective was forced to change and the lessons learned have stuck with me.
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We all have failed. We all will keep making mistakes. Most importantly, failure can make you succeed. Everyone knows Walt Disney, a famous animation artist. Before he became famous he struggled while reaching the top of success. After he made an unsuccessful series, he filed for bankruptcy. When the bankruptcy hit Disney lost almost everything and was having a hard time to make ends meet. This was Walt Disney's big time failure, but he made it into history for it. Just like famous people we all fail, so why is it important to fail?
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Traditionally, failure is seen as a negative concept and is defined as lacking success. I, on the other hand, try to put a positive spin on everything in life. I see failure as an obstacle that is experienced by all, but it does not define an individual. Failure in essence will force an individual to be more receptive to their surroundings and actions and also will force an individual to mature. Looking back on my childhood years I can now pinpoint the areas where I failed and I can confidently say that I have grown and prospered due to those failures. The three major failures I have experienced were my attention deficit issues which affected my ability to succeed in school, my anti-social habit that I let consume my early years, and my
Failure is something that happens to everyone no matter who we are. For that reason, people