Definition Essay: What Is Failure?

What is Failure? What is failure? Most would say it is a lack of success. However, failure derives from not complying with the things needed to achieve success. If a person tries really hard to reach a certain goal and does not achieve it, it is not because they failed. It is because that goal was not within in their capability. Now, if a person sets a certain goal and expects to reach it without doing the work and is shocked when they don’t, that is failure. Let’s use a college student as an example for failure without trying. A freshman in college spent too much time with their priorities unorganized. They would go to work at their part time job and then stay longer than necessary to hang out with their work friends. Now, their work friends are all older and did not go to college and even though this person may think they want what is best for him, this student is wrong. Real friends would tell that student to go home at an appropriate time and do their homework so that they could go to bed in a timely manner and wake up energized to go to class. Or at the least, not so exhausted they …show more content…
A great example of this is Walt Disney. Not only did he create more than 81 feature films and hundreds of shorts, he earned awards for them. He earned more than 950 honors and 48 academy awards. Most people would think his success was straight and narrow. He proposed an idea and everyone was sold. That’s not exactly how his story worked out. Walt Disney grew up in a rough family life. Many of his siblings chose being homeless over having to stay in the house with their abusive father. At the age of 22, which is the age of most college seniors, Disney experience bankruptcy due to his cartoons being a big failure in Kansas City. He had $40 to his name and determination. Legend has it Walt Disney was rejected 302 times before finally having a believer that would finance his dreams. That is an example of failure driving