Personal Narrative Why is failure the best teacher? I am going to answer this question using personal stories as examples. Failure is the best teacher because no matter what it changes a person, if someone fails and gives up it shows them that they didn’t really want to succeed badly in the first place, if someone fails and uses their failures to then succeed than they learned what it took to make their endeavour go right. We learn from failure by deciding how we are going to react to it and depending on that reaction, it can be a large change, or a small change.
First, a failure to complete a simple task can lead to change in a person whole perspective or worldview changing. For example, when I was 10 years old I had no problems getting up for school in the morning, my brothers on the other hand were always acting as if they were heavily sleep deprived and if they had to get up and drag themselves to school they might die. Some of my brother’s antics included, always hitting the snooze button, falling asleep in the shower, …show more content…
Then, I started high school and my classes increased in difficulty drastically from what they used to be I now dreaded going to school as my brothers did, having to sit through long class periods, having to memorize information for a test which I would most likely forget the week after it, having to put op with a large amount of people I wasn’t fond of. And then one morning, I hit the snooze button on my alarm for the first time and I started to miss the bus and before I knew it I had turned right into my brothers without even realizing it. Through my failure to wake up during my alarm I had learned that I didn’t understand my brother’s actions because I hadn’t experienced them myself. This experience or failure
First, a failure to complete a simple task can lead to change in a person whole perspective or worldview changing. For example, when I was 10 years old I had no problems getting up for school in the morning, my brothers on the other hand were always acting as if they were heavily sleep deprived and if they had to get up and drag themselves to school they might die. Some of my brother’s antics included, always hitting the snooze button, falling asleep in the shower, …show more content…
Then, I started high school and my classes increased in difficulty drastically from what they used to be I now dreaded going to school as my brothers did, having to sit through long class periods, having to memorize information for a test which I would most likely forget the week after it, having to put op with a large amount of people I wasn’t fond of. And then one morning, I hit the snooze button on my alarm for the first time and I started to miss the bus and before I knew it I had turned right into my brothers without even realizing it. Through my failure to wake up during my alarm I had learned that I didn’t understand my brother’s actions because I hadn’t experienced them myself. This experience or failure