26. Celebrating Failure

The activity in which I experience the most failure is cooking. I was forced to learn how to cook as soon as I came to college. My first time cooking in my dorm, I activated the fire alarm, because I overcooked the chicken. With time, however, I realized the mistakes I was making and adjusted my techniques and preparation to improve the final outcome while simultaneously saving time cooking. Through this, I learned that no matter how many times you fail, you can either stop and never reap from your benefits or you can try again until you succeed. In the case of cooking, I used each failure as a learning experience and decided to keep trying until I succeeded, this was mostly motivated by my need to eat. From this, I learned that most success comes from trials and tribulation when you want to succeed at something that is a worthy accomplishment you have to prepare for failure and acknowledge that success will not come unless you keep trying. I try to implement this in the majority of skills that I try to improve from programming to cooking and from sports to video games. Failure will breed success if you aren’t afraid to try.