Reading Response Essay: What Is Failure?

“The best way to measure your progress at something is the number of setbacks and “failures” you’ve had.” (Tracy). Failure is a good thing is consistently about how failure isn’t always a bad thing and failure is how we learn. Failure is experienced every day from many people and they think if they fail they think it’s not good. Some concepts that were picked out were writer’s voice, the reading response, and word complexity. The author’s voice in the reading, overall gives the reader a shocking factor and makes me think more. There was a moment in the reading were it was very abrupt. “I was lying. What I actually wish for her is failure.” (Caroll). For instance there was some wittiness that I spotted in this reading. “If you’ve spent enough time in the kitchen to have broken a lot of pots, probably you know a fair amount about cooking.” (Caroll). Tolerance was also used in this passage, it kind of surprised me a little bit. “Each week I am aware that one column is going to be the worst column of the week.” (Caroll).
I felt many things while reading this passage. I was shocked at times and other times I was surprised. Success isn’t required the first time around. “First-time failure, by contrast, is expected; it is the natural order of things.” (Caroll). Public embarrassment to feed your soul kind of surprises me because most people don’t want to embarrass themselves. “She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul. (Caroll). Why wouldn’t you tell someone that failure is a good thing? Telling someone failure is good could actually help them. “I probably won’t tell her that failure is a good thing, because that’s not a lesson you can learn when you’re five.”