Celebrating Failure

1. This past semester I have failed at a few things, some bigger than others, but one that I have continually failed to do was follow up on not procrastinating on my schoolwork, particularly in this class.  I always seem to be rushed to finish these assignments because I wait until the last minute like I am doing right now with this assignment as I am watching the Masters on Sunday Night.  Each time after I rush to get the assignment done, I tell myself afterwards that I need to plan to work ahead but I have failed each time.

2. Failing can be caused by a lot of different distractions.  Competition, other priorities, laziness etc.  Unfortunately for this assignment, most of the cause of the failing was the laziness.  However, some other classes have contributed to having to put off certain assignments.  This is definitely something I need to learn and prioritize.

3. This is an awesome question.  I used to play the game of failure, baseball.  In this sport, you are considered a great when you fail 70% of the time.  With all of this failure, you need ot learn how to persevere through the failure and learn from it.  There are a few options when faced with failure.  1. quit because you dont think you can push through it.  2. ignore the failure as not important. 3. take the failure and analyze why and how to learn from it.  In this class, we discuss entrepreneurship where, like baseball, failure is all around us in every stage of the process.  We constantly have to find out the failures of the industry, products, and our own ideas to create the perfect product and target the perfect demographic.  I would definitely say that the assignments in this class have made me more willing to take the risk because I am more confident in the risks I am taking.  I have gone out and interviewed customers and entrepreneurs.  I have analyzed the market to choose my best target and how.  I have created an idea and improved it from criticism from others. This class has improved a lot of different skills