My Failure At Elk Grove High School

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.

A first time I Encountered failure was failing algebra first semester, when I was a freshman in high school. I was going to a new school so like everyone I knew that everything was going to be different. All of my classes throughout the year were pretty easy to manage I was on the right track and I understood each course, but the one class I was struggling was algebra I liked math back in middle school. It was simple and easy but like everything in life nothing is as easy as it seems which is one of the lessons I learned. Every time I went to that classroom topics was something I never learned before. For everyone it seemed simple and easy and when it came to me it wasn’t easy it was difficult and I started struggling.

Failure is one of the most common things that happen throughout life but you can learn a lot from it. My sophomore year of highschool I joined the debate team at my school, it was the first year that my school had that club so none of us on the team were professional debaters. I knew it was going to be very difficult because of the topic that we were arguing. The topic was based on expanding Ocean exploration. Finding information about expanding ocean exploration was challenging but making arguments for both affirmative and negative sides was much more challenging. Although I had a rough time at the beginning of the season, I did not give up, failing only gave me motivation to try harder.

Failure is simply not performing to the best of one's ability. As a sophomore, I experienced a lack of understanding and received a C in Calculus Ab. Being in an advanced math class, I was expected to perform better on our math exams. However, I received few B's and C's and D's. This was not my true math abilities; math had become challenging. I was performing below my own expectations and should've been scoring higher on these tests. For me, this failure was not about the grade but more of my own confusion in the class. Knowledge is all I wanted; I retained little information in this class. I learned from this bad grade that the way to improve is to practice. The next year I decided to retake Calculus Ab and performed at a higher level of

I have experienced failure many times in my life, but the one that sticks out the most to me is when I took my first ACT. Going in to the test, I knew I wanted to get a 27 or higher. That was the score a lot of colleges use as their honors score, and I thought that was a reasonable starting point. I had taken an ACT preparation course before, but that was the only studying I chose to do. Test day arrived and I was very nervous, like most people before the ACT, and I had to drive an hour to get to the test site. Four hours later, I finished my test and thought that I did pretty well and that I should have no problem reaching my goal. A couple weeks later, the test results came back and I had received a 26 on my ACT. I felt horrible. I was so

When understanding failure you must understand that it is conceptual. A mere thought. A fluke, one may say. One may know the act of failure but does one know what it is to feel like a failure? The sensation of a thousand bugs running up and down your skin every time you raise your hand in class? The sensation of shouting and almost as if you should have been burnt away at that very moment? My knowledge of failure is precise; there is no falter. I know of failure more than the regular person. One might worry.

An incident in which I experienced a failure happened to be my junior year of High School. Technically it was a year of many failures seeing as how I wasn't doing my best in any of my classes. It was a tough year; to be quit frank I let my circumstances get the best of me. Not only did I fail those courses, I failed myself. These failures helped me realize I wasn't being my best self, or even doing the best that I could possible in all aspects of my life. It affected me in such a way that I decided to make a change. I allowed these failures to push me towards striving harder for the things I want and what I believe I am capable of as the year proceeded. It helped me raise the standards for my work, my art, my writings, my makeup skills, and

Failure is something that has been in my life for many years. Although it is always disappointing, failure has always been something I viewed as a positive experience and as one of those things every human must go through. I use failure to motivate me. If people gain any negative opinions or doubts from witnessing my failure, I use that for motivation as well. I consider myself as a person that is never satisfied when it comes to achievements. Being a competitor, I always want to do the best that I can. If I am in a competition, I do my all to win. This is why failure never gets me distraught. I see it as a challenge and I attack that failure until it is a victory.

Failure has always been a part of my life in more ways than one. When I was younger, I truly believed that I was one myself. I was severely bullied in middle school due to me being overweight and "unattractive." I grew up with a sense that I didn't belong. I never thought that I could make it anywhere, thus college has never been a priority. My only concern at the time was to fit in. This lead to years of self harm, eating disorders, and self deprecation. When I entered high school, I was lost. I began to hang out with the wrong crowd and my grades began to slip in some classes. This didn't matter to me because I finally had what I always wanted. I had friends. This all changed when I became involved with someone in the group who turned out to be quite abusive, both mentally and

The term “failure” is usually considered one of bad, or possibly even evil, connotations. School children use it as a way to mock their peers, teachers use it for identifying the quality of a lesson learned, and of course, there’s always the way we use it as a self-incriminating way of identifying ourselves. With all this negativity, why would anyone ever actually look forward to failing? Can anyone truly accept failure as a positive in life? This is, perhaps, the real conundrum of the situation. Is failure a good thing, and one that we should all stop to embrace so that we may grow and further our writing abilities?

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

What is the definition of failure and how can you use it to succeed? Well, failure means that you actually lack success and what we all know is that failure is the last thing we want to experience in a situation. Eventually, you will learn that failure can eventually lead to success. There are many things you can do or learn in order to succeed from it. For example, you have to experience failure first so that way you won't suddenly confused on why you didn't do anything right. You also might not know that it is the number one path to success when you want to be able to accomplish something. The last thing you would want to know about failure is that you should learn from it to enhance your mind.

Failure is simply defined as the lack of success ("failure."). Ironically, it is nearly a requirement to fail in order to understand success. Failure is not necessarily a bad thing and should not be looked down upon. Failing is not achieving, but from failure we gain experience allowing us to achieve in the future. There is comfort in knowing that every single successful person has failed at least once to get where they are now. Thomas Edison had been recorded on many occasions saying that he had not failed one thousand or more times, he just found one thousand ways not to do something (“I Have Gotten a Lot of Results! I Know Several Thousand Things That Won’t Work.”).

Failure is a concept that athletes, companies, and everyday people are afraid of, but failure is a good concept in fact it is a necessity and every person should fail once in awhile.

Failure resonates with every person. It seeps into our thoughts and draws us into a place of doubt impairing our natural abilities and hard work. Yet failure is also what shapes us and molds us into the people we are now. It bonds and unites every person together in a common shared experience while also tearing us apart inside.