Failure rate

Outliers: The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell, is a non-fiction book analyzing similarities of culture, family, and class of what we define as a successful person. Gladwell examines and breaks down his answers to what most people wonder: “What are the personalities of a successful person?” “Were they born with various gifts that the unsuccessful don’t have?” “What personal aspects of an auspicious individual help shape the peak of what they reach?” Countless written autobiographies…

meant to be conquered. When challenging your fears, apart from having good initiative, you need to have a clear picture of your desired outcome in your imagination. The lack of these leads to complaining about your situation, which is a recipe for failure by default. Always remember that how you started does not determine how it will go with you or how it will end. Without a clear picture of the desired outcome in your imagination, you will perceive situations wrongly. When your perception of a…

selling t-shirts, and eventually entered UC San Diego, due to its close proximity to the beach. In the early 2000’s, he led a failed Internet venture, a game company, which had raised $4 million dollars in funding, but flopped after a year. This failure, however, did not end his aspirations; it further inspired him to better himself and his worth ethic. He travelled to Australia and Indonesia for inspiration, but he faced the predicament of finding an efficient way to document his experience. He…

am today. It would have been much easier to quit when I was 10;especially since the team went defeated the entire year. Ever since I was 10, I have strived for greatness. The words hard and difficult are for those who are afraid of failure. Baseball is a game of failure. More often than not I have failed more than I have succeeded. That has pushed me to better myself and create new challenges to…

Failure doesn’t always mean success. Success comes from hard work, but to get to success you could’ve had a failure at one point. One thing could lead into another, but the choice would have to be made by you. Discovering Wes Moore is a nonfiction book that compares the author Wes and the “other” Wes, where the other Wes is serving a lifetime sentence in jail. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine, the tragedy is that my story could’ve been his”. Although, both Wes's got to…

At Vanderbilt University they have a website with a section called “Center for Teaching”, within that section there is information on ways to motivate students. The two different ways to motivate students at that University is by using intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. There is a difference between intrinsic motivators and extrinsic motivators. Intrinsic motivators reward students differently from extrinsic motivators. Extrinsic motivators use materialistic rewards and intrinsic…

I had high hopes entering college; I believed it was going to be a turning point in my life. Unfortunately things never work out the way you want them to, since I wasn’t able to live up to the expectations handed to me. The plan was simple; go to Bellevue College, obtain an associate degree in business then transfer to University of Washington in Seattle all while retaining a high GPA. Though I’m on track to obtaining a business associate soon, my grades so far has fail to meet expectations.…

lazy habits and no work ethic. If kids are taught by just giving minimal effort towards their tasks in their futures, they are most likely going to fail. Not only will they fail, they won’t have the experience and knowledge of what to do to overcome failure. Failing kids pushes them to give forth their best efforts, gives them experience of failing in their futures, and people learn from failing. First, failing students pushes them to give forth their best work. Throughout my schooling I…

do something. Having a higher self-esteem can enable a person to deal with failure better than a person with low self-esteem as well. If someone with low self-esteem experiences failure, they tend to view their failure on a more global scale, often feeling that they will fail at everything they do. Rather, people with higher self-esteem are able to compartmentalize their failure and move on, rather than viewing that failure on such a large scale. A person’s view of themselves is a determining…

The end of the day comes whether you have gotten up to do something productive or if you have simply remained inanimate while time moves around you. I have found that the present slips away while you are worrying about the future. We are constantly telling ourselves that if we just get through this, then everything after will be better. We forget to appreciate the moment while constantly reaching for a hypothetically more fulfilling life. Once we graduate high school, or get through a…