Failure Is Not A Kind Of Disasters

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 is something that all people encounter in their lives. In some situations failure can break a person or make a person, meaning a person can fail at something and just simply give up. Others will fail and that failure can give them the inspiration to try harder to one day achieve their goal. I'm the type of person to fail and work harder until I am content. As my championship baseball coach would say "What’s our motto? Never give up!"

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.

The short story, The Right to Fail by William Zinsser, explains how it is acceptable to fail and learn from one's mistakes and to not go down the path society has made socially acceptable. Zinner has a positive outlook on the concept of failing, he explains, “Success can be dangerous- you feel you know it all. I’ve learned a  great deal from my failures.” As life goes on, everyone may not succeed the same way or even succeed at everything they attempt to do, but it is important to learn from mistakes and continue moving forward and to find the path that works for you. Trying new things and failing or succeeding can open new doors to something better.

Edition English textbook talks about the right to fail and taking chances. Zinsser makes the point that sometimes one has to fail to succeed. He talks about how the word “dropout” is looked down upon, but to him, it is a chance to learn from people’s mistakes. Zinsser makes a point that advertisements and TV commercials try to push the idea of material success. Although, people should not fail just for the fun of it, he states “I only mean that failure isn’t bad in itself, or success automatically good.”

Failure is a part of everyone's daily lives; however, depending on the person you are you

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

I believe William Zinsser is both right and wrong. Right because failing can be a good way to help us learn. On the other hand, he believes we should value failure as a good thing which I do not agree.

In Zinsser essay, he says “ A boy or girl who leaves college is branded a failure which is their right to fail but more than 3 million American college students would serve VISTA in some capacity if given the opportunity.” This evidence shows that failure can be accepted in America even though the average is high. Success and failure

Failure is a process that can determine one’s character. It is a process needed in order to be successful. Through life people approach failure in various manners. For example, there are people who sulk, people who pretend, people who repeat, and

William Zinsser’s “The Right to Fail” is a powerful yet controversial block of text that expresses his views on failure. With a title like that, any reader’s attention would be grabbed, yet as I read I found that I disagree with several of his points.

To begin with, we should go over what failure is and how people see it as “bad”. It’s a word that is used when you or something is done isn’t successful. This is usually a good reason why people

Failure is something that we cannot go through life without experiencing. The best thing about failure is that failure can be used as a great learning experience to improve upon things in our lives and career. Using failure as a learning tool is dependent upon the person and how they view it as well as how they use it. Failure is a matter of perspective and the lessons in failure are important aspects towards growth and development. If we did not experience failure there wouldn’t be opportunities for learning. Failure can teach us about ourselves as well as provide an understanding for our

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