Celebrating Failure

1) Last semester I was taking a science class that I thought was particularly difficult. The first test I did alright in, I got a 74. I was quite confident that I could do better on the next one, and I really wanted to do well in the class, and everyone else seemed to be doing really well. The second test came around and I had a test the night before. The timing couldn't have been much worse. I stayed up incredibly late for the next one studying much harder than I did for the first test. I got my grade back and I got a 65. When the teacher emailed us about the test grades she said 65 was the lowest.

2) So at this point, if I didn't do really well on the last test I wouldn't even pass the course. So I started studying early and I studied very efficiently for the final test. I ended up getting a 88 on the final which helped me pass the class. Not exactly the grade I wanted but I felt accomplished that I didn't give up after the second test.

3) Failure is hard. It can be incredibly hard to deal with depending on how much effort went into the action that failed. But to quote rapper Big Sean "No mistakes, only lessons" meaning when you make a mistake it's just learning a lesson the hard way. I don't think this class has changed me too much in regards to taking risks. I always felt that I take more risks than the average person. To quote Big Sean again "Look, what's life without risk? If you take none, that's probably what you gonna get." Which I think is very similar to what Thomas Edison so famously said. If you don't take any risks you can't succeed period.

Big Sean