Are You A Loser Analysis

The articles/speeches, Grit (Tedtalk) and “Are you a loser?” (scholastic), encourage success by telling you that you can do it and failure is part of success. One way they encourage success to you is by saying that failure is part of success, you must persevere, and if you try hard enough you will achieve your goal. They say these thing over and over again to get it in your brain, to make you remember that failure is part of success, to make you get the main idea. Articles do this most of time, but it gets the thought to your head. When I first watched “Grit” I could get the main idea that grit is to persevere and try your best. To me, it taught me to never give up and to push through your obstacles, even, sometimes, change your goal to some you, yourself, can achieve, not anyone else. The “Are You Loser?” article, from …show more content…
It taught me to fail. These two concepts sound similar so it actually taught me so much more than I can comprehend right now. This year I’ll be using advice from the “Grit” speech to help me be more successful in 7th grade. When I think something is hard I’ll think back to the speech when Duckworth, the presenter, said,”If you try hard enough you surely can learn [the idea].” Before I ever take advice from these articles I have to be willing to fail as stated in the “Grit” speech. The article “Are you a loser?” states, over and over again, that you MUST fail. That you have to learn how to fail if you want to succeed. When i hear that I think that when you fail you’re learning how to get back up from failing and to learn from your own mistakes. Surely, if you don’t ever fail in making your invention or idea, your invention will have a bump in it. I’ll use these quotes, from “Grit” and “Are you a loser?” to refer back to whenever I have a problem or I’m not self confident. These two articles taught me so much in the categories such as inspiration and self-confidence that I’ll definitely remember these articles and the quotes