26A – Celebrating Failure

1) A time I failed this semester was planning to work ahead in this class and not sticking to it. At the beginning of the semester, I said to myself that the first assignments I would get done and over with at the beginning of the week so I can focus on more rigorous assignments for other courses would be in this class. However, I’ve typically put off doing the assignments until later or just before the due date. Waiting until later to do the assignments has made it more stressful on my school work a lot more than it should be. It’s even affected my sleep schedule to an extent because I once put off doing my second Elevator Pitch until filming it at around 2 in the morning, hours before the deadline.

2) What I learned was how any bit of procrastination or poor time-management in this course can affect you. If I plan something in the beginning, I have to stick to it or else it messes with the flow of my work. I learned that if I stuck to my original goal of working ahead, it’ll make it easier on myself and don’t have to stress to rush doing the assignments.

3) Failure can be tough to deal with. Nobody wants to admit that they failed at something or deal with the embarrassing aspects of it. To me, failure is when you are unable to attain some sort of goal that you previously set to achieve. It can be failing a test you were sure you would do good on or forgetting to do your assignments on time. I originally would get embarrassed to talk about certain failures because of how others would perceive of me, but this class has changed my perspective of failure and to use it as a learning experience to better yourself. Instead of focusing on the negatives, look at what went wrong so you can improve on it to make sure the same mistake doesn’t happen again. As the age-old phrase goes, “failure builds character”. I would say I am more likely to take a risk now then I would have been in the past.