- Earlier this semester, I was planning for a friend's birthday. I messed up the plans and the whole group of us who were going to go out for an activity on his birthday had to turn around after driving for 40 minutes and go home. It was pretty embarrassing. I had tried to get everyone together for dinner before we went, but one person was late (and I knew they'd be late, but didn't think it would matter). We were supposed to go without that person but I tried to accommodate everyone, and it ended up meaning we couldn't do the thing we got tickets for.
- I learned to just stick to the thing you know will work, instead of trying to please everyone.
- Failure is certainly embarrassing, especially when your failure directly negatively affects people you care about. But seeing how much people fail, and reading how much time and money is wasted on failure, and that most people don't make it, I think I'm less likely to take a risk now than I was before the class. Probably not the answer they were looking for, but that's how I feel.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
26A – Celebrating Failure
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Andrew,
ReplyDeleteTrust me my roommates and I have literally been in the same situation. Instead of a birthday party, we were planning a social for the UF MLP and everything that could go wrong went wrong. Someone created like two different flyers with two different starting times of the event and everything. The lesson you learned can never go wrong by sticking with what you already know.