Shawn Davis

26A – Celebrating Failure

            Celebrating my failure when I was younger I tried several times of attempting to do a back flip. When I was in elementary I would always hang out with the older kids, they were either in a high grade or in middle school. All of us went to after school care together and once we get there and finish our homework we would be free to play and all of the older guys knew how to flip and I wanted to learn how to flip so bad but every time I attempted to flip I seem to never control my body to do the flip. For weeks straight I failed at trying to get my body to flip until one day I tried to do a back flip I controlled my body to flip but It was a half flip my body wouldn’t go straight back my flips would go sideways. I never gave up I would practice flipping every day I had free time, as weeks go by I just stood there and jumped high as I can and threw my body backwards and I did a perfect back flip just to see if I can do it again before bragging about it I tried it again and I landed my second time, the next day in after school camp I was bragging about me knowing how to flip and all of the bigger kids came running saying let me see flip. When I went to show them I jumped so high and did the back flip everyone started flipping celebrating something I failed at for weeks. I learned that if you really want to do something and you are eager to learn to do it never give up.

          

         Failure to me is something you continue to fail at and you give up on it letting failure get the best of you. The way I handle failure is if I fail at something I would emotionally get myself together and do things differently from the first time I failed at what I’m repeating. this class has changed my perspective on things because dealing with our venture concept I continued to come up with ideas to make my idea better and hoe to be successful and I never gave up on coming up with ideas so I could stay away from my business failing.