Celebrating Failure

Failure 

I would say the most I have failed at in the past few months were assignments associated with this class. The assignments I failed at were ones that we had to get interviews with because I would not find the right amount of people that I needed to be able to complete the assignment, while getting sufficient information in the process. It took me a few times of failing at these particular assignments for me to realize that I needed to take a different approach in being successful in the assignments rather than be starting the assignment earlier in the week or setting a goal of how many people to approach to get a rewarding interview that I would be able to use. 

Learning Experience 

The learning experience that I took from failing a few assignments with similar guidelines with this class was that I needed to find a method that would work with my personality and free time that would help me be successful with future assignments of this sort. Also, I learned that just because I didn't complete a few assignments and may have not got the experience out of the assignment that I should have it was still a learning experience that will allow me to handle similar situations of trying to get interviews again. 

Reflection 

I believe that failure is a necessary step in everyone's life that we all need to experience to some level. This is one of the only ways that we as human beings are going to learn, and I believe that the majority of the time when someone fails, myself included you get more out of that experience than if you would have completed it successfully, which will make a person gain multiple attributes out of that experience, such as resiliency and determination.  I would say that I handle failure in multiple ways because the majority of the time I am pretty hard on myself when I feel at something that I am determined to not make that same mistake again, since it affects me negatively. Other times, if I am stubborn and want to do something my way when others say maybe I should look at it another way, and then I fail at that task than I am not as hard on myself because I should have listened to other's feedback. However, I think I need to experience failure sometimes in order to get me going in the right direction again. Finally, I do believe this class has given me a new perspective on failure, and I think I am more likely to take risk now than I was at the beginning of this class because it is not as bad as you think it is when you fail at something. I think it was more about myself mentally telling me how bad it is going to turn out than actually doing something and failing at it, and not having that experience.