Saturday, July 23, 2016

Celebrating Failure

I've recently started playing golf and it's a very hard game.  So I continually fail at that every time I hop on the green.  I always fall short of what I want to do, whether it's hitting over what I expect to, or slicing the ball into the woods on my first drive.  This is expected though, because it's a learning experience.  You try, fail, adapt, try again, and gradually get better.  When I slice a ball, I say "Okay, what causes the ball the slice?, figure it out, fix it, see if it works, and so on.  Failure has never been emotionally draining to me.  I've never taken it bad, because I know it's completely nonsensical to be 100% successful in everything you do the first time you do it.  This class didn't really challenge my perception of failure at all.  I learned a lot, for sure, but my perception of failure being a positive thing, a learning experience, has remained the same.


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