My first take away is that if you fail happily you will gain more confidence. How can I fail happily. When I fail, I fell as if my body is shutting down and it is time to crawl into a hole and slowly die. He says on the other hand that if you fail happily you will become more successful. It is a really interesting thought.
My second take away is that taking the harder slower route might be way more beneficial to you and many others. Instead of flying over the ocean. This man and a buddy rowed across it. Sending media to America and Canada. They took the hard route and overall came out successful. Even though they had fail because of the boat capsizing.
My final take away is that your greatest point of growth is hovering right underneath your limit. If you push yourself to fail at least once a week you will become even more successful. Try to push yourself until you can no longer take another step. That is when you will grow the most.
I agree that it seems like a good practice to fail once a week. You will learn more than constantly just trying to constantly succeed. You will never know your limits if you don't go until you can't anymore.
Always take the harder way for anything. I've heard this a lot. It's always easier to take the easy way out, might as well be different. That's why few people are able to accept failure because they always choose the easy way.
I believe that in the aspect of failure what we need to do is take the hard way of doing something once a week. That way we get our dose of failure and we are constantly learning to be better. We challenge ourselves to do whats hard and eventually the things we think are hard will be easy to do.
Failure is actually a great way to learn. It lets you see what you are best at and what your limits are. You shouldn’t be afraid to fail, but actually embrace it.
Essentially, being happy is a very helpful thing. It helps you learn more, it leads to more accomplishments, and will help you get through things in life better.
Even the most horrible of situations can have a good aspect to it if you just look at it through a happier perspective. When you are determined to think of something as bad, that is all it will ever be to you.
You must look at everything with a happy or good attitude. Nothing will ever be good if you don't. Everything has a good side, you just have to find it.
Wow! Really deep Megan! :P I agree with you. Life is what you make it, and if you are always moping around, you are not gonna have a very good attitude.
Being happy with failing is something I struggle with in school and in sports. I've always been taught that failure is never an option, but now I can see how much I can learn from failing and what good things can come out of it. It shows you what you can take and your true self.
When we get competitors on our teams, we think less of them. The "I'm going to be better then them," and "They can't beat me forever." We should view them as a way to make ourselves better because we are always going to have competition. Also, we should want them to be better because that makes your team better too.
I think to be successful in whatever we do, we must seek failure. We have to push ourselves past our known limits and fail. I like the quote he uses for it, "the greatest point of growth occurs right below your limit." You will need to push yourself to failure to become successful.
Failure is always taught as a negative and we are put to shame when we do it. I believe that we should be taught that if we do fail that we need to do it happily and take it as a learning experience.
I agree with the part you wrote about that we have to push ourselves past our known limits and fail. Everyones aware of their limits. We have excuses for so many things, like I'm not good at that, or I can't do that, but really we probably could its just outside our comfort zone or our "limits".
His whole perspective on failing is positive is completely different from what I’ve always thought. Most people, including myself, see failure as a negative thing. It’s nice to hear that failing isn’t always bad, but I still don’t think I’d ever want to seek failure. In some situations you need to fail before you master it, but I don’t agree with seeing failure as an okay thing all the time.
I think the part where he says that our failure level is right under our limit is interesting. If we push ourselves completely to our limit we’ll tire ourselves out, but if we keep going to our failure level we’ll get better each time.
I also like how he thinks that as long as he had a good time and learned something, he didn’t truly fail. Sometimes learning from the mistakes can be more helpful than not failing something. This could help you more for in the future.
I guess if you have fun at all times, whether you fail or not, you will succeed. Having the right attitude makes all the difference. You will learn that you learn more from your mistakes then your accomplishments. Work hard and have the right attitude. You will be able to do everything.
I also like the part where he discusses, if you had fun, you did not really fail. I think this is a message that needs to be taught more. People really need to hear it more in places like school and work. Mistakes are not always bad and we need to stop thinking they are.
I liked that part too. If you can look at it in a positive way, then it really wasn't a failure but just something that you gained from an experience. This should definitely be more encouraged in places like school especially, so we can learn and figure things out early on.
The first takeaway that I got was that there is an attitude in competition. Like his example of Jake that those who are beating us our our enemies. Really failure is a learning experience and we can learn from those who compete with us. The second is the most growth occurs when you hover on the edge of your capacity bubble. You know your limit by when you start to fail. You can only learn to not fail by failing and knowing your limit. The third is to be a happy failure. We learn the most when we are happy not sad. Failing and being happy will help you to learn better from the experience and to shrug off failure a lot easier.
I am extremely motivated when I have a worthy adversary to compete against. Weather it's lifting weights or getting a highscore in pinball, competing pushes me and makes me passionate about things weather they matter or not in the big picture.
The first takeaway that I got from this video is that when we find someone who is better than us at something, or who is considered competition to us, we automatically put up a shield and just spend all our time trying to beat them when really we could probably learn a great deal from them. Also I wish we could just celebrate people in their successes or when they are better than us instead of getting all bitter.
The second thing I got from this is that sometimes its going to help you out if you look to seek failure or just let failure happen. All the time people try to avoid failure at all costs because bad things could happen or it could be embarrassing, but from failure is where you learn your mistakes and how to be better, and not keep going down the same road.
The third takeaway from this video is that you should be happy when you fail and take it like a champ. If you can't accept it and are just going to be bitter about it, then you probably won't ever learn from it and thats what failure is for. You have to be able to move on so that you can do bigger and better things.
I feel that being happy when you fail is physically impossible. Why do this? Well, I guess it depends on the attitude you have towards your failed attempts at things. If you have the right attitude then you will an easier time except the fail.
I have always thought of failing as a negative. When he said that failing was a good thing, at first I was confused, but then he explained that you learn the most once you have failed. That is a good way of thinking of failure.
My second takeaway was about his view of the harder, slower route. Although he could have chosen to fly in a plane, he chose to row in a boat. He said that when his boat overturned, sure he was disappointed, but when he and his buddies talked with each other, they were happy because of what they learned along the way.
It was interesting of him to tell us to “Seek Failure”, we do not think of failure as something to strive for, but in this situation, it makes sense. He tells us that we learn the most right below our limit. We would not know what our limit was unless we failed at some point. He was very interesting to listen to.
I've always feared failure. I shy away from it when I see it coming. It feels like I been stunting my own growth for years. I wonder how much better I could've became if I stopped quitting things when I fail at them.
Take aways I loved his studdering friends view on failure. Someone who seeks out failure is a winner in the long run. Some people get lucky with success but I have a feeling that Ill have to fail until I earn it.
It may be a little unrelated but I liked the part where he remarked on spandex. He triumphed when he looked silly. It has always been hard for me to focus on anything when I think I am out of place or looking odd. I need to work on getting over being uncomfortable.
I understand what it is like to succeed and not be happy. I used to be in a bowling league but there weren't many kids my age in it. in fact, I was the oldest. Apart from feeling out of place, it was the winning that killed the fun for me. I had so much more fun when I had someone to compete with in bowling. Murdering those helpless kids in bowling every week wasn' fun at all.
My first take away is that if you fail happily you will gain more confidence. How can I fail happily. When I fail, I fell as if my body is shutting down and it is time to crawl into a hole and slowly die. He says on the other hand that if you fail happily you will become more successful. It is a really interesting thought.
ReplyDeleteMy second take away is that taking the harder slower route might be way more beneficial to you and many others. Instead of flying over the ocean. This man and a buddy rowed across it. Sending media to America and Canada. They took the hard route and overall came out successful. Even though they had fail because of the boat capsizing.
My final take away is that your greatest point of growth is hovering right underneath your limit. If you push yourself to fail at least once a week you will become even more successful. Try to push yourself until you can no longer take another step. That is when you will grow the most.
I agree that it seems like a good practice to fail once a week. You will learn more than constantly just trying to constantly succeed. You will never know your limits if you don't go until you can't anymore.
DeleteAlways take the harder way for anything. I've heard this a lot. It's always easier to take the easy way out, might as well be different. That's why few people are able to accept failure because they always choose the easy way.
DeleteI believe that in the aspect of failure what we need to do is take the hard way of doing something once a week. That way we get our dose of failure and we are constantly learning to be better. We challenge ourselves to do whats hard and eventually the things we think are hard will be easy to do.
DeleteI agree with you Erin. I think it is hard on me when I fail, but I also think we have a lot to learn from it.
DeleteFailure is actually a great way to learn. It lets you see what you are best at and what your limits are. You shouldn’t be afraid to fail, but actually embrace it.
ReplyDeleteEssentially, being happy is a very helpful thing. It helps you learn more, it leads to more accomplishments, and will help you get through things in life better.
Even the most horrible of situations can have a good aspect to it if you just look at it through a happier perspective. When you are determined to think of something as bad, that is all it will ever be to you.
You must look at everything with a happy or good attitude. Nothing will ever be good if you don't. Everything has a good side, you just have to find it.
DeleteWow! Really deep Megan! :P I agree with you. Life is what you make it, and if you are always moping around, you are not gonna have a very good attitude.
DeleteBeing happy with failing is something I struggle with in school and in sports. I've always been taught that failure is never an option, but now I can see how much I can learn from failing and what good things can come out of it. It shows you what you can take and your true self.
ReplyDeleteWhen we get competitors on our teams, we think less of them. The "I'm going to be better then them," and "They can't beat me forever." We should view them as a way to make ourselves better because we are always going to have competition. Also, we should want them to be better because that makes your team better too.
I think to be successful in whatever we do, we must seek failure. We have to push ourselves past our known limits and fail. I like the quote he uses for it, "the greatest point of growth occurs right below your limit." You will need to push yourself to failure to become successful.
Failure is always taught as a negative and we are put to shame when we do it. I believe that we should be taught that if we do fail that we need to do it happily and take it as a learning experience.
DeleteI agree with the part you wrote about that we have to push ourselves past our known limits and fail. Everyones aware of their limits. We have excuses for so many things, like I'm not good at that, or I can't do that, but really we probably could its just outside our comfort zone or our "limits".
DeleteHis whole perspective on failing is positive is completely different from what I’ve always thought. Most people, including myself, see failure as a negative thing. It’s nice to hear that failing isn’t always bad, but I still don’t think I’d ever want to seek failure. In some situations you need to fail before you master it, but I don’t agree with seeing failure as an okay thing all the time.
ReplyDeleteI think the part where he says that our failure level is right under our limit is interesting. If we push ourselves completely to our limit we’ll tire ourselves out, but if we keep going to our failure level we’ll get better each time.
I also like how he thinks that as long as he had a good time and learned something, he didn’t truly fail. Sometimes learning from the mistakes can be more helpful than not failing something. This could help you more for in the future.
I guess if you have fun at all times, whether you fail or not, you will succeed. Having the right attitude makes all the difference. You will learn that you learn more from your mistakes then your accomplishments. Work hard and have the right attitude. You will be able to do everything.
DeleteI also like the part where he discusses, if you had fun, you did not really fail. I think this is a message that needs to be taught more. People really need to hear it more in places like school and work. Mistakes are not always bad and we need to stop thinking they are.
ReplyDeleteI liked that part too. If you can look at it in a positive way, then it really wasn't a failure but just something that you gained from an experience. This should definitely be more encouraged in places like school especially, so we can learn and figure things out early on.
DeleteThe first takeaway that I got was that there is an attitude in competition. Like his example of Jake that those who are beating us our our enemies. Really failure is a learning experience and we can learn from those who compete with us.
ReplyDeleteThe second is the most growth occurs when you hover on the edge of your capacity bubble. You know your limit by when you start to fail. You can only learn to not fail by failing and knowing your limit.
The third is to be a happy failure. We learn the most when we are happy not sad. Failing and being happy will help you to learn better from the experience and to shrug off failure a lot easier.
I am extremely motivated when I have a worthy adversary to compete against. Weather it's lifting weights or getting a highscore in pinball, competing pushes me and makes me passionate about things weather they matter or not in the big picture.
DeleteThe first takeaway that I got from this video is that when we find someone who is better than us at something, or who is considered competition to us, we automatically put up a shield and just spend all our time trying to beat them when really we could probably learn a great deal from them. Also I wish we could just celebrate people in their successes or when they are better than us instead of getting all bitter.
ReplyDeleteThe second thing I got from this is that sometimes its going to help you out if you look to seek failure or just let failure happen. All the time people try to avoid failure at all costs because bad things could happen or it could be embarrassing, but from failure is where you learn your mistakes and how to be better, and not keep going down the same road.
The third takeaway from this video is that you should be happy when you fail and take it like a champ. If you can't accept it and are just going to be bitter about it, then you probably won't ever learn from it and thats what failure is for. You have to be able to move on so that you can do bigger and better things.
I feel that being happy when you fail is physically impossible. Why do this? Well, I guess it depends on the attitude you have towards your failed attempts at things. If you have the right attitude then you will an easier time except the fail.
DeleteI have always thought of failing as a negative. When he said that failing was a good thing, at first I was confused, but then he explained that you learn the most once you have failed. That is a good way of thinking of failure.
ReplyDeleteMy second takeaway was about his view of the harder, slower route. Although he could have chosen to fly in a plane, he chose to row in a boat. He said that when his boat overturned, sure he was disappointed, but when he and his buddies talked with each other, they were happy because of what they learned along the way.
It was interesting of him to tell us to “Seek Failure”, we do not think of failure as something to strive for, but in this situation, it makes sense. He tells us that we learn the most right below our limit. We would not know what our limit was unless we failed at some point. He was very interesting to listen to.
I've always feared failure. I shy away from it when I see it coming. It feels like I been stunting my own growth for years. I wonder how much better I could've became if I stopped quitting things when I fail at them.
DeleteTake aways I loved his studdering friends view on failure. Someone who seeks out failure is a winner in the long run. Some people get lucky with success but I have a feeling that Ill have to fail until I earn it.
ReplyDeleteIt may be a little unrelated but I liked the part where he remarked on spandex. He triumphed when he looked silly. It has always been hard for me to focus on anything when I think I am out of place or looking odd. I need to work on getting over being uncomfortable.
I understand what it is like to succeed and not be happy. I used to be in a bowling league but there weren't many kids my age in it. in fact, I was the oldest. Apart from feeling out of place, it was the winning that killed the fun for me. I had so much more fun when I had someone to compete with in bowling. Murdering those helpless kids in bowling every week wasn' fun at all.