Failure
We have all failed at one thing or
another at some point in our lives. As I grew up I started to develop a passion
for gymnastics, I loved being at practice and when I wasn’t at the gym I would
spend hours practicing in my basement. There are four main events in gymnastics
one of them being beam. I was always terrible at beam; I could never remember
the routines since I was so concentrated on not falling. Once we started to
compete I got the lowest score on beam out of everyone for the entire year. I
was extremely embarrassed by this that I started spending more time at the gym
with my coaches. Eventually about two years later I started getting better at
it and wasn’t so afraid of falling off the beam.
I don’t necessarily think when a
kid fails at something it’s a bad thing. I actually consider it to be a good
learning experience. For example, by getting the lowest score on beam out of
all my teammates for the year it encouraged me to do better and work harder. One
of the articles I read this week was “ The Myth of Practice makes Perfect” and
something interesting I pulled from this article was “ the difference between
ineffective and effective practice means the difference between mediocrity and
mastery.” In order to reach that level of mastery not only do you have to put
in long hours but also you need to fix the things you’re “failing” at or things
that need improvement, which is also known as deliberative practice. I think
its important for kids to fail at something early on so they know that not
everything is going to come naturally and it can take hard work to accomplish
things. I do believe kids are pressured not to fail but like I said there’s
always going to be a time where they’re going to fail at something. That’s when
they need to have the motive to fix it or have some encouragement from someone
else.
No matter where you are you could
possibly fail at something whether it is at school, during a sports game, or at
home etc. some people may look at failure and think it’s a bad thing but I look
at it differently. I see it as a good thing because it shows you what you need
to improve on. Nobody’s perfect, we’ve all failed at something so why think of
failure as a negative thing when it’s a perfectly good learning experience. Overall
I don’t think failure should be frowned upon because it happens to us all and
it benefits you by showing what you need improvement on.
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