26-A Celebrating Failure


1) This past semester I have failed a decent amount of times that I 100% percent could've done better in. The first failure began with my first Accounting exam where I did not study as much as I should have because I thought I would be okay for it when in reality I should've learned the material better. I did learn my lesson though and got substantially higher on my next exam. Another time I failed was recently while I played in the Regional tournament for the University of Florida's Men's Club Soccer Team. I didn't completely fail but I did not play as well as I would have liked in some of the games and I take that as a failure. 

2) I learned from these two failures that I need to prepare ahead of time and be ready for essentially a big performance. I can't just half-ass everything and then kind of know what I'm doing, instead I have to get in repetitions from either problems or practice.

3) Failure is hard; it's embarrassing. I changed stuff about myself by buying study material to help me prepare for my classes and I started running more to prepare for games with the soccer team. I handle failure by first assessing it rather than just letting it get to me. I try and solve the problem after letting off a little bit of steam. This class didn't really change my perspective on failure. I prepare better for my things but I feel like I would take all the same risks as before excluding the obvious risk of not studying or preparing.

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  1. Nala MckieNovember 25, 2019 at 8:29 AM

    Hi Nathan,

    I had some similar failures to you. This semester I completely bombed the second Business Finance exam; not too far off from accounting. I would say that I take the same perspective as you. I thought that I had it and that I didnt have to study as much. In reality, I probably should've studied a lot more. However, I think that I have learned more about failure from this class and I would take more risks because of it.

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