Assignment 26A- Celebrating Failure

1.     This semester, one time I failed was during my speech class. I was required to present a persuasive speech that must be six to eight minutes long. I wrote my outline and created my visual aids, however, with friends in town that weekend I did not practice my speech, I figured I would just practice that Monday and give my speech that night. However, that did not happen. I ended up being at the doctors all day and searching for my prescription at numerous different Walgreens and Publix’s because none of them had the right one. So by the time I got back home I had thirty minutes until I was supposed to give my speech. I went in there and did the best that I could but clearly it was not good.

2.     What I learned from this experience is that life happens and it’s ok to mess up in school one or twice it’s not the end of the world. But it also did teach me that I should also plan for the worse to happen. I should’ve practiced over the weekend just in case something out of my control did come up, which is what happened.

3.     I have never been one who liked failure. Failure was never an option for me and if I did fail I took it hard. It makes me feel almost weak and below others. However, I realized everyone is different and some people will be better at things than me and I may be better at some things than other people. So ever since high school I decided that you don’t know you will fail unless you try so I take risks even if the possibility of failure is there because it’s just an opportunity to learn something new. This class hasn’t changed my perspective much since I am a risk taker, but this class did show me how I can apply this mentality I have developed into the real world when I decide to embark on my own business. Being scared of failure should not be a reason why anyone doesn’t go for something, take the chance because yes there is that chance of failure but there is also that chance for success.