Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Failure = Success (eventually)



Failure isn't necessarily a bad thing in actuality I think it is positive because if you don’t fail that means you never tried. In the book Mindset people with a growth or fixed mindset handle failure differently. For example, having a growth mindset you’re more open to take responsibility and learn from failure and have room for self-improvement. On the other hand people with a fixed mindset are the ones to believe that they don’t need new knowledge and the genes they have inside caused by nature is what they want to remain with. In the reading The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Harry Potters author, J.K Rowling discusses failure in like I said before, a positive way. In her opinion failure is a stripping away of the inessential. In other words the things you don’t need might be taken away from you but that only leads to the thriving to want get them back. There was one thing I agreed with in the reading, What if the Secret to Success is Failure? “The idea of building grit & building self-control is that you get that through failure” says Randolph. To understand that I guess you would first have to know the meaning of grit which is to go or look through carefully in order to find something missing or lost. In this case the missing piece is success and you’re looking through failure. When I fail at something I tried so hard to achieve I used to get really upset and not want to continue to try. It’s easy to give up but much more difficult to have the ability to get up and do it all over again. In life things are not just given to you and if you ever really want something you’re going to have to be willing to do anything to get that.

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