26A - Celebrating Failure

At the beginning of the semester I had failed my first exam for my management class. Out of the 100 points I could’ve gotten, I earned 56, and it was difficult to accept. After analyzing the process it took to fail that exam, I learned how not to again. I better understood the time I had to dedicate in order to perform better on the next exam and picked up different study techniques to ensure I was better prepared. 
I think, and always have thought, that failing gives you a chance to learn something. Many times people think that a failure equates to them being inadequate, or not good enough, to perform their desired task, but the truth is that their approach to it needed fine tuning. I think it’s important to not use failure as an excuse for why you can’t do other things; then you’re just lazy. This class surely secured my beliefs on failure and gives me more confidence to pursue the unknown. 

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  1. Jeremy AguayoNovember 22, 2019 at 10:52 AM

    Hi Carlos,

    As you mentioned, failure teaches what we did wrong. What’s important is that we analyze and determine where we made our mistake and make the necessary corrections moving forward. Like the old saying goes, it’s only a mistake if it happens twice. That is why life experience and learning how to not make the same mistakes twice is so important in life.

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