1) Tell us about a time this past semester that you failed:
I am a member of a Christian ministry on campus, CRU, and I love to meet up with people and help mentor them through their times in college. Like I said earlier, I often am looking to limit my time that I am wasting and optimize the things I do. I have the desire to meet up with people and get to know them better and try and mentor them, but I want to optimize my meetings so I have tried to limit the time I spend with people. The other day someone told me that they felt that they weren't actually friends with me because I was always on the go or trying to push the speed of our meetings instead of letting them be authentic. I failed because I want to mentor people, but they felt it wasn't natural and called me out on it.
2) Tell us what you learned from it:
I learned that you have to choose and value your friendships instead of optimizing your time and trying to do everything perfectly. I want to do great in school, build great relationships, and serve the community, but its impossible to do all those things perfectly and that I will have to sacrifice certain things for the things that I value the most.
3) Reflect, in general, on what you think about failure:
I think that failure is natural and that you have to fail in order to truly find the things that you are pursuing and the things that you loved. When I got to school, I was mechanical engineering, but I never wanted to be an engineer. I failed a few classes and had to switch majors and I switched to Sports Management. Failure led to me finding the major that I love and that I have truly flourished in. I do not handle failure well, but I embrace that it will happen so I am not upset when it happens. I feel that this class has made me realize that I can accomplish more than I think I can, but I have to be prepared for failure and be willing to pursue the next idea. I feel like this class has made me more of a risk taker because I have seen the different things about my business idea and how those things were wrong and had to make adjustments.
Hi Walter,
ReplyDeleteI think what you are doing is great. It's so hard to find good people around here who are committed to their studies, beliefs, and the community, so I want to applaud you on that. I think it's wonderful that you say you don't like failure, but have embraced that it will happen. I think this is something we all need to do and a thought process that we should all embrace. Try to remember to slow down and take every moment for what it's worth- even if you do not have as much time as you would like to meet with your peers, you can optimize the time you do have with them by focusing only on them and their needs, and that is the most you can give! Here's a link to mine: http://maursfirstblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html
Hey Walter, enjoyed reading your assignment on celebrating failure. I understand that you want to do great in school, build relationship and serve the community because I want to do the same but I’ve come to the realization that you can’t do everything all at once. I’m glad that person told you about his disappointment, that way you can work on it for the future. Check out my post:
ReplyDeletehttp://jamalbrown4.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html
Hey Walter,
ReplyDeleteFailure is important to learn from and all experiences can have value. I definitely understand your dilemma, and in college time is very precious. A good thing is that you have now learned that to be an adult you really have to spend your time carefully, depending on what you care about. Great job read mine here http://donovanvuf.blogspot.com/2016/04/celebrating-failure.html