Failure At Something Or Never Attempt It In The First Place Essay

For the philosophical dialogue I asked the philosophical question: “Is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place?” I asked this question mainly because in science, scientists have to take risks and often fail many times before they succeed. The scientific world would be very different if scientist never attempted to do half of the things they did. Trial and error are key factors in scientific discoveries. My thoughts about this subject before I entered the dialogue were that I think it is worse to never attempt it in the first place. By not attempting to do something, that person is already surrendering to failure. Attempting anything has a higher chance of success than not attempting at all. Failure is a step we must all take to reach success. The world was not created in a day.
My dialogue partner also believes that never attempting is worse than failing at something. They believe that one may not know what could happen. One can succeed at something even when all odds point to failure. When one does not attempt in the first place, they are missing out on possible discoveries. If you never take that leap of faith, how are you to know what lies below.
To further enrich the dialogue, I asked “When you fail, is all the effort put into doing that something worthless?” My …show more content…
I asked “Has there been a time when it was worse to fail than having to try in the first place?” At first they laughed and said yes, realizing that they had just contradicted their previous statements. Then they said that although they had wished they had never tried in the first place, they are glad they did because now they know what not to do. By knowing what failed then, helps them not repeat the same mistake that will lead to failure. They saw their failure as valuable experience that lead to new unexpected