After reading Pauline Estrem’s “Why Failure Is Good for Success,” I have started to have an understanding that the article was about many ways people see failure and the ways they deal with it. Sometimes failure can seem like the more probable outcome but sometimes those failures can be turned into a lesson and that person's attitude towards failure can contribute to how they handle it.
The first major point Estrem’s article makes is that no matter badly you want to do something, there’s going to be an option of failure and it’s up to you to decide if you want to take that risk or not. In the article, Estrem quotes someone named Ralph Heath from a book he wrote called Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big. In the book, he says “Instead they chose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief they generally never attempt anything great and which they could possibly fail (or succeed).”(Estrem, 2016 para 3.) I one hundred percent agree with and think is a perfect quote for the first main point. Almost everything we do in life has some sort of risk and sometimes the risk of failure happening is greater than success but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t even try. Living a sheltered life scared of failure isn’t really living it’s avoiding the inevitable that is sometimes failing. The best example of taking a risk knowing that failure is most likely going to
The first major point Estrem’s article makes is that no matter badly you want to do something, there’s going to be an option of failure and it’s up to you to decide if you want to take that risk or not. In the article, Estrem quotes someone named Ralph Heath from a book he wrote called Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big. In the book, he says “Instead they chose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief they generally never attempt anything great and which they could possibly fail (or succeed).”(Estrem, 2016 para 3.) I one hundred percent agree with and think is a perfect quote for the first main point. Almost everything we do in life has some sort of risk and sometimes the risk of failure happening is greater than success but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t even try. Living a sheltered life scared of failure isn’t really living it’s avoiding the inevitable that is sometimes failing. The best example of taking a risk knowing that failure is most likely going to