Michael Jordan's Failure Is The Key To Success
The score is 13 to 14 the other team is in the lead in the fifth set, number 7 goes up for the hit, BOOM, the volleyball hits the floor with a smash. This is what happened her sophomore year of district volleyball. The Merino Rams had won the first two sets but, gave up the last three. She felt that she had fail herself and her team, she should have dug out more balls, kept more of them in bounds, but and the end of the week she did not see this loss as a failure she saw it as an opportunity, an opportunity to grow. Thomas Edison once said "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." In life everyone fails, but when we fail to do something that does not mean it is a true failure.
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Without failure everyone would be the same. No one would have to think outside of the box and truly challenge themselves. In a world with no failure everyone would be average. The famous basketball player Michael Jordan is a prime example. When he was in High school he was cut for his high school basketball team, telling him he just wasn’t good enough. Look at Mr. Jordan now though, he is one of the greatest basketball players to have ever play in the NBA. If Michael Jordan would have just accepted his failure when he was cut for his high school team he would never be where he is today. Instead he took the challenge of being cut and went out and became extraordinary. The author, Marco Correia, writes "...Factors such as gender, type of sport and age, differed regarding their fear of failure." (Correia 189). When Correia ran a study of some different athletes to see if certain things would affect how they viewed their failure. What she found was even if they all played different sports, or if they were a different gender, it was not those things that affect their view of failure. It was all based on their personal. The way the view their failures either determined if later on they would succeed or if they would continue to fail. The ones that looking failing as a challenge would continue on and achieve great things. Those who had a bad outlook on it would give up, never reaching their full potential Failure challenges everyone, turning the ordinary into the
Without failure everyone would be the same. No one would have to think outside of the box and truly challenge themselves. In a world with no failure everyone would be average. The famous basketball player Michael Jordan is a prime example. When he was in High school he was cut for his high school basketball team, telling him he just wasn’t good enough. Look at Mr. Jordan now though, he is one of the greatest basketball players to have ever play in the NBA. If Michael Jordan would have just accepted his failure when he was cut for his high school team he would never be where he is today. Instead he took the challenge of being cut and went out and became extraordinary. The author, Marco Correia, writes "...Factors such as gender, type of sport and age, differed regarding their fear of failure." (Correia 189). When Correia ran a study of some different athletes to see if certain things would affect how they viewed their failure. What she found was even if they all played different sports, or if they were a different gender, it was not those things that affect their view of failure. It was all based on their personal. The way the view their failures either determined if later on they would succeed or if they would continue to fail. The ones that looking failing as a challenge would continue on and achieve great things. Those who had a bad outlook on it would give up, never reaching their full potential Failure challenges everyone, turning the ordinary into the