Triumphant Failure In College

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.

It gave me a sense of pride when my dad would come into the back yard and tell me how accurate and powerful my shots were becoming. At this point I wasn't conforming, I actually truly loved the sport. Near the end of the elementary, I was put into so many soccer camps, forced to attend so many soccer games so my dad could show me how the pros played. I was told one day I, just like Jei Ming would be destined for greatness. I was starting to become aggravated and burnt out. I no longer had the same passion for it as I did when I was younger. I had formed a new love, and that was for hockey. I wanted to play hockey so badly, I cried the Christmas my parents bought me my first pair of hockey skates. I figured finally I was breaking through, however that spring like every other one since I was 4, my dad signed me up for multiple camps. Like Jei Ming I saw how proud my parents were when I would step onto a soccer pitch and score multiple goals a game. I could see the pride in their eyes, their faces would glow. Although Jei Ming was forced to learn and play the piano, all these soccer games were just like a recital for me. I could see that my parents were envisioning me on the biggest soccer

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.

Sir Winston Churchill, a British politician from 1800’s says “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” Throughout my few years of living, I have learned that everybody is going to fail at something at least once. It is up to you to take all of your failures and turn them into success. It’s not going to only take one day but everyone is destined to be successful.

Many people try and many people have failed. Everyone hopes to succeed in something, whether it be anything from sports to seminary, school, or just life. Every day there are people who invent things, they try over and over again until it works out. There are many successful people in this world and they didn’t get there easily. Success is something earned not given, and comes with trial and error.

In addition, the willingness to learn through failure can help to reach the desired destiny. Nearly everybody fears failing, because it has been associated with all sorts of negativity. Although an optimistic look on the other side of tripping or falling down in life can make someone to be successful in

I have always enjoyed achieving my goals and making myself the best I can be. I have gratefully been apart of the field hockey program at Massabesic since I was a freshman. Learning just a few weeks before the actual season begun, what the sport was and the basic fundamentals of how to play. I weaved my way right into the program and the adventure began, creating many memories that I will always hold close to my heart. I made junior varsity to start off preseason and was a promoted to a swinger position for the varsity team by the first game of the season. That season (2014) the team made it to play offs and lost in the first round to our biggest rivals, the Sanford Spartans. It was an upsetting ending for everyone. The program was loosing the seniors we had been cherishing the entire

Throughout my years of growing up I have heard this saying many time and in many different ways. I’ve heard from my parents, my family members, teachers, counselors, guest speaker, etc. But most of the people I have heard from said it in a similar way which was, “with success comes failures”. While I was in middle even in high school my classes had numerous amounts of guest speakers trying to persuade the kids to become successful in life and motivating us to never stop reaching for our goals even though if you stumble during the process, you should never give up. Many people have a mindset that causes them to believe that if you fail in something you will never be successful but I believe that this is one of those false belief

Many times when people think about failure all they can think about is the loss and hardships they have experienced rather than the good that can come out of loss. Everyone in there life is experiences failure at some point and without failure it would be impossible to relish the joy of success. In eighth grade I experienced a heartbreaking loss that helped shape me into the man that I am today.

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.

Failing may be a big reason to success failing is honestly one of the reasons you start succeeding like i once heard if you’re always going to fail at first but then you start building the success that you’ve had with your failures.There’s many possibilities that failure can lead you to success.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” There are four issues that will affect you for failing a college class in your life as a college student. First, you will have to pay again to retake the class again. In college, you have to pay your classes at all times. However, if you fail one class you will have to pay again and waste your money on the same class. Second, your Financial Aid is no longer given to you, until you get your grades up. In the mean, while you will have to pay with your own money your classes with no help of Financial Aid. Third, your Satisfactory Academic progress will decrease and your grade point will not be looking great. Meaning that your GPA will go down and it will

When I fail trying again makes me better, so failing is part of success to me because I am an athlete and I want to get better rather than keep failing.

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

Success and failure seem to be pretty distinct opposites, but many times success and failures aren’t as we think they would be. Sometimes failure is can be turned into successes if you are willing to look back at them, and open to learning from them. For example, failing a test or quiz, could be seen as a success or failure, it just depends on how you personally view successes and failures. In my opinion flunking a test is a failure in the moment, but it might be beneficial to you in the long run. You might learn new things from the mistakes you made, which could help you be more successful in the future. I believe success is characterized by commitment, effort, and stepping outside of your comfort zone. Failure, however, is marked by