Celebrating Failure - 26A

It’s quite difficult to remember every time I have failed this past semester. I’m sure I have countless times but the most notable one was on my first exam in my Principles of Management course. I technically didn’t fail but I didn’t do my best. It was a trial and error for me. I studied for 2 days, made a study guide, took the practice exam, made sure to read the chapters and somehow, I studied everything that wasn’t on the exam. I took it too technical and didn’t remember to apply the terms to real life scenarios.

This failure helped me realize I was studying the wrong way. I needed to remember to not just memorize the information but actually learn it and understand it. So, for my second exam, I did just that and got an A.

Like mentioned, failure is embarrassing. It’s not something anyone is really ever proud of but I think failure is important. It keeps people humble and I think you should always learn from your prior mistakes. If you keep failing over and over again you haven’t learned the lesson yet. If you always win and succeed you are really growing or learning as much. I don’t think I handle failure very good. Although, on the outside I act unbothered, I internalize it and constantly overthink it.


I have found myself taking more risks in life this past semester, because I know at the end of the day failure isn’t the end of the world. I will always be reserved, but I have learned to take chances.

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