Essay On Longboard Failure

Failure is inevitable experience that can result in new understandings about ourselves and life itself. Whether a person is young or old, everyone has that one story of a time where they encountered failure. The first time I can recall actually dealing with failure came when I was in the 8th grade and learning a new slide on a longboard. I had started longboarding the year prior as a result of moving and living too far from my bus stop. As 7th grade progressed, I got increasingly better and eventually started to learn how to slide, which is a technique used by long boarders in an attempt to slow down when you start to wobble on your board because of too much speed and not having the proper stance. As a result of attempting to slide, many failures
Consequently, I suffered many avoidable injuries that would not have occurred if I had just learned that final step beforehand. That final step, which was where I would place my feet before a slide, is probably the most crucial part to a successful slide. What I had been doing wrong this whole time was keeping my feet parallel before a slide rather than putting the top foot up front and the bottom foot hanging off the board for maneuverability. As a result of finally learning this from an online source, I began to see a drastic improvement in my sliding ability and eventually started learning the no-hand slide and the two-hand
Malcom X was African-American leader and influential figure in the Nation of Islam. Furthermore, he is most known for his dedication to discussing the concepts of race and black nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s. In the excerpt from Prison Studies, I learned that Malcom X was jealous of a fellow inmate by the name of Bimbi because of his extensive knowledge, which lead Malcom X to pursue being just like him. Malcom X followed in Bimbi’s footsteps by using outside sources like books and talking to others to further enhance his own knowledge, which was an act that mirrored my own experience. He stated that “from then until I left prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk.” However, Malcom wasn’t always this persistent in wanting to grow as a person, much like myself. At the beginning of Malcom X’s sentence in prison, one could argue that he had something that Carol Dweck would call a rigid mindset, but in wanting to become exactly like Bimbi, he slowly gravitated toward a growth mindset in which he started doing things that the growth mindset promotes. Malcom X started by exploring new things and for him that included learning to write and read from a dictionary. Furthermore, it also included him wanting to gain new knowledge all the time by becoming a fanatical reader. Similar to my situation, I was too stubborn to ask for help outside myself in the