As a 24-year-old entrepreneur, after 6 years of running my business as an esthetician, I truly learned that failure is needed to change. It is the best way of improving. It’s hard to develop a mindset of resilience. The mind doesn’t like change, let alone when you put your heart and soul into it and end up not achieving it. Albert Einstein is one of my favorite scientists, and if you knew his story, it dropped your jaw. Einstein wasn’t good at math or science when he was growing up. Yet created the most famous equation of E=MC^2. If we let failure hinder our process, we won’t allow ourselves to learn. We won’t allow ourselves to put our ego aside and truly jump into the highest version of us. It takes hard work, for this is our first time here on earth. As we are children, failures and mistakes are heavily associated with guilt, fear, and shame. Fear of being rejected and fear of being judged creates shame and blocks us from being our true, authentic selves. Alexus Yeakel states that the culture of innovation comes from innovation, and creative thinking comes from failure. To relate to this, the writing process is full of messiness and failures. No writer writes perfectly on their first draft. Everything in life needs a little fixing; we delete and rewrite sentences. Sometimes, we notice that what we wrote doesn’t make sense. We have a different approach to how to make this better.
A perfect example is when we do peer reviews on our writing or when Mr. Friend gives us feedback on our writing. Those who fear rejection or failure attach themselves to the writing process and might take their reviews to heart and not see the opportunity to improve their papers for the better. Everything in life is one’s perspective,
yet like any skill one must fail to succeed and learn from it’s failures to become the human they’d like to be 🙂
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