My Personal Experience

For one of the few times in my life, I let myself down. At my interview for Phillips Exeter, the admissions director asked me how I would face disappointment, given that it would surely occur over the next four years. I thought I knew, but as it turns out, I overestimated my abilities to face it head on. During those first two years, disappointment hurt me. By concentrating on that period of time, you would perceive me incorrectly. But please know this: I am stronger than ever, more aware of my ability to overcome something that hit me

From the time a child is born to the day that they die, they will be told countless times to dream big. People tell them to reach for the stars and pursue the things that make them happy. Something they do not tell them is how powerful failure can be; how it can alter a person’s perspective on life and the direction they think they need to go with their future. Ever since I was a little girl my life’s goal in the FFA was to become a State FFA Officer. The concept of being able to positively impact someone’s life and promote an industry that I believe in whole-heartedly got my blood pumping. I was not prepared for failure, I only thought about success.

Today, I eat lunch with friends, I find comfort in my clubs, and sometimes, I fail. When I lived in Florida, I never had to cope with failure, as everything came to me easily. What I know now is that failure is an unavoidable aspect of life, and I know I’ll encounter it wherever I end up. When I moved up the East Coast, I learned how to face failure head on and accept that there are days when I can’t be perfect. But I am now able to learn from my failures and keep them in mind when moving

Rather than one failure, this essay will involve a series of failures that changed me as a person.

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Most people associate failure with something negative, while I associate it with positive thoughts. If I wouldn’t have failed at the Youth World Barrel Racing Championships I would have never learned how to stay humble, positive, and how not to let failure bring you down.

In life we all have encountered successes and failures, sooner or later. Although failure is dreadful, I can only learn from it. I have failed multiple times, but I matured and learned from the experience. I, being a teenager, thought a job would make me more efficient; however it was the exact opposite.

I experienced failure as an assistant coach of the girl’s basketball team at Bethany Christian Middle School. Every loss we had weighed heavily on my shoulders, making me disappointed in myself, both as a coach and as a mentor to the girls on the team. I had the mindset that a coach’s job was solely to win, and I was doing the exact opposite of that. This negativity would radiate from my tone, body language, and overall demeanor. Eventually, it would spread to my players, and I could see how not enjoyable both the games and practices were becoming. It took me till about halfway through the season to look at this situation from a different perspective. It was then that I realized my true failure was not in failing to coach these girls to victory

In my past, I perceived failure as an imminent prelude to a destitute fate. Familial conditioning made this pattern nearly impossible to break. My black and white perspective of failure made dealing with life’s inequities difficult to deal with. When I experienced failure- it defined who I was as a person and crushed my esteem and what I believed I was capable of. Through my experience of committing to better my education at Chinook College, I realized that my perspective of failure hindered my ability to rebound, rebuild and learn from my mistakes. When I first enrolled at Chinook College to upgrade my high school courses, I was scared and nervous. I had given up on my academic learning when I was a child, a devastating time in my life when

Every single one of us here have probably been disappointed in our lifetime. However, how awful the storm of disappointment is, the most important part of disappointment is how we respond to it. We can either respond to it in a negative way or a positive way. When the going gets tough you can either bounce back from disappointment or accept the failure. The media industry often portrays disappointment as your best friend like in Soul Surfer or your worst enemy like in Million Dollar Baby.

I knew personal failure was no fun but I did not expect it to overtake my entire life. It was no longer just about who had the highest grades and who got to be the line leader, but who had stellar grades and a social life. Eleventh grade, the most stressful year of high school, was my the of emotional failure.

What does it mean to invent something? Has anyone ever truly invented anything? Wikipedia defines invention as “a unique or novel device”. At Dictionary.com the definition is better described as “U.S. Patent Law: a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.” While the patent office is filled with so called inventions, many that were never produced, some argue that the ideas were either stolen or just evolved naturally out of other people’s research. From the unknown inventor of the wheel, to Ford, Edison, and Steve Jobs, you can find brilliant applications of technology, but have these people actually invented anything?

Life is full of disappointments. Sometimes some are small in nature, and sometimes some are big. However, at some points, people get over it, but sometimes they don’t. Moving from our past experiences is not easy; it’s very tough. Somehow these experiences build our personality. We started to becoming so much protected. We afraid to feel new experiences, however, at some point, we need to decide, whether our wish is to control by our past, or we want to build our

this is very wordy, and long, and possibly confusing. but, i really hope it makes some sense, because this concept/idea/human experience is one that i’ve been itching to share/process for a while.

When I think of my own personal past experiences, I think of the most significant events and most likely think that those are the times that have shaped you as who you are today and who you are in the future. When my grandpa had passed away there were major effects that my family and I had faced. Difficulties like not being able to sleep at night and having lost someone who meant something special to everyone. When I think about the smaller challenges I have faced in the past and throughout my life, I can start to put together that even the most insignificant events that have happened in the past could make a significant impact on the person I am in my near or far future. Occurrences like going through broken bones, losing friends, or even a gym teacher might have a greater force than I may have expected.