Failure
Essay by 24 • December 14, 2010 • 536 Words (3 Pages) • 1,102 Views
Failure is something that every person experiences one time or another in their lifetime. Some people may experience it more than others and some people are lucky enough to not experience it often. I am one of those people who tends to experience it often! I do not mind it since I learn from my mistakes, usually. Without failure in my life I do not believe I would be the same person, or have the same outlook on life. People are able to learn a lot from failure, and grow as an individual.
When a person fails at something it should usually make them want to try harder and examine what happened. When I fail, for example, a math test, it makes me want to look over the things the test was on and study more so that I have the correct ways mastered for the next time. That way I will not fail the next test. I like to see what mistakes I made and why I made them. If someone opens their own business and it fails fairly early they usually want to go over all their information and find out what mistakes they made and also see how they could have changed or made better decisions.
Failure teaches us not to give up, to try again. There is always something to be learned from what happened; whether it be it was not the right choice for that person, or it was unreachable. When things do not go right and we give up, then we never know if we could have made that opportunity possible. If we would give up after every time we failed, we would never take risks. We need to keep trying after we fail, that is the only way we know what we are capable of doing.
It seems to make us stronger as an individual. For example when we fail and are able to figure out what went wrong and how we are able to change it, it makes us stronger. We need failure in our lives to keep us level headed. If everything went perfect every time we would never care about taking risks. We need to think about the risks we are taking, whether they will work for us
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