Failures Lead to Success

Failures Lead to Success

Failure is what often happens in our lives. Students may fail in exams, athletes may fail in competitions, and even scientists may fail in their research work. Everyone has failing experiences in his own life. People feel upset when they fail. While these people may yield to failure and flinch from it, successful people rather learn from their failures and cope with mistakes in order to reach the successful final. For some people, failure represents opportunity and growth rather than deficit and loss. Even though failures accompany hardship, bitterness and disappointment, it leads us toward the path of success.
Failure is not always a bad thing as it creates great learning experiences in reality. No one expects to fail, but no one can avoid failing, too. Famous inventor Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” (Edison) Edison never gave up when he failed. Instead, he drew useful experience from his failures, and he finally succeeded. Also, we don’t get scared by failing early in the process. According to article “Failures and Success”, Chris Brogan says “The more failures you can get out of the way early in the process, the easier it will be to work past them, and then get onto a successful course. Failing very late in the process is a lot harder to fix” (Brogan 1). This means that the more difficulties we overcome on the road, the closer we get to success. It is also even a lot better to fail early than late because every time we fail, we can learn important lessons from failure that we will never forget. We have improvements from conquering failure as each failure points out mistakes we have made and what we should avoid in the next attempt. In addition, Paul Logan narrates his story in the article “Zero”. He fails in high school with a “0” GPA, but he eventually graduates from community college with a perfect GPA. His story is a positive example which encourages us although failure is very painful, we can learn life lessons. Failure is not a terrible thing. Logan also says: “Failure doesn’t have to be an ending. It can be a learning experience – one that builds strength and gives direction” (Logon 4). Even though it is so upsetting to fail, on the other side failure provides great experience leading us to a different approach.
Failure is a function of trying. If we really want to get outstanding achievements, we are likely to fail at least a few times. Brogan says in his article, “many innovations have come through failure”(Brogon 1). He states many remarkable inventions or discoveries were achieved after hundreds of failures. Also, many successful people of the world failed many times before they succeeded. In fact, the real successful people don’t just fall upon success. They worked hard, tried hard, and failed hard to achieve success. According to a Youtube video, Michael Jordan was cut from the high school basketball team, locked himself in his room and cried. He is the greatest basketball player in the world; Thomas Edison, who was the greatest inventor ever, was considered too stupid to learn anything at school; Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination and ideas. We can notice that these great men had one main thing in common. They failed, not once but often. If someone is asking a reason why all the great men and women throughout history could succeed, then my answer is that they failed over and over before they could get to success. Success tends to arrive after a serial of trials and failures. When I first came to San Francisco, I was placed in the ESL program in City College of San Francisco. At that time, everything was new and learning English was difficult for me, too. English skill is needed everywhere - in class, in the restaurants, even at the supermarkets. Writing essays was the biggest challenge for me, even right now. I remember when I was in ESL class, once I did not pass in-class writing. I was so upset. Even though I tried my best, I could not make any progress in writing. I really got stressed out over my college education. I could not figure out what was the effective way to write. I made an appointment with my English teacher. In his office, I told him what I was concerned about. I asked him how I could make progress in writing in order to pass the class. He comforted me and encouraged me not to give up easily. Then he told me reading can help English learners study effectively. He showed me some “A” papers from the past classes he taught. He said I would be welcomed to read this paper if I want to. I went to his office two times a week to review all the “A” papers. Those papers I have read greatly helped me on writing introduction, conclusion, thesis statement, and topic sentence of paragraphs. My efforts were effectual so I passed the course with a “B”. I then realized nobody was born as genius for success.
Failures can lead us toward success when we encounter hardship. We should always remember failure isn’t an ending, it is a new start which we can learn from. Failure doesn’t really mean we fail, it just means we haven’t succeeded at that time. When we encounter failure, we don’t view it as bad luck; instead, we should view it as valuable learning experience and good attempts as It delivers postive messages leading us toward success.