"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fall." These words by Ralph Waldo Emerso perfectly describe my feeling towards failure. Now this wasn't my mentality from the start; in fact, this way of thinking took time and some wise words from my parents. One experience that I recount as a failure was seventh grade tennis tryouts. Knowing that I had my faith in my hand, but being overconfident and arrogant was my demise. That particular incident had a mind altering effects on my mentality as a whole. It was the halfway point of seventh grade and the Wimbledon Championship concluded. For the sixth time Roger Federer reign supreme. As a spectator and a big fan, I was astonished and very driven to play. Knowing that in a month that tryouts were happening. I asked my parents for a racket and some tennis balls. Now at the time I was confident in my aptitude in playing tennis. Plus, I practiced pretended tennis several times. Fast forward a month the inevitable tennis tryouts occurred. I was oozing with confidence of making the team and being at least vice-captain. At the tryouts the coach asked me who to play a quick match with. I choice the captain, Brendon …show more content…
For a while I blamed the racket, the shoes, Brendon everyone and everything except me. When my mom arrived she was puzzled with the early pick up. For the whole ride home I didn't say a word. I honestly think my mom predicted the entire outcome. Before we got out of the car, my mom said a quote that totally changed my perspective. ” You can't blame anyone but yourself ", these six simply words shook my boots. In that moment I self-reflected again and this time I saw all the failures that led to my demise. I turned to see my mom and said," Thank you." In that instant I knew that failure was in the hand of the beholder and the only person who has the power to change it was
Failure to me was the position I was stuck in as a little girl, my family was stuck with little resources and stayed in the same neighborhood. In order for my expectations of my life to be where they are at now, they required me to live with that failure.
To sum things up, the teacher showed a lesson towards the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” has more than the lesson of playing tennis. This book show the process of having the basics thing done and just continue to evolve your skills with it. Techniques and skills that are the key point is very important in life involvement. My teacher told us that keeping this mentality will help you continue to have a successful life if you keep this
“Everyone fails. Wwhat defines us is how well we rise up after falling,” Dr T.P.Chia. If we don't fail, we will never learn and if we don't learn, we will never change., Ssome of the greatest minds, athletes, writers, etc have learned this through failure. In the article “Are You a Loser”, “Invictus” and “Finding a Joy in Overcoming Obstacles.” We need to play and fail before we can win the game. You need to practice and keep pushing through the pain. No one likes to fail but if you don't fail then you're not learningtrying. Learning, kKnow that tomorrow you will succeed, and will power these are the effects that you will get from failure. We all fall sometimes, what matters is that you get up.
Never before have I experienced anything comparable to the sensations which arose from playing on my USTA Junior Team Tennis 14’s and Under Intermediate team. Prior to this team my club decided to piece together one summer, I had only competed individually, almost never together with other players, and for a young boy with social anxiety and fear of attention, this environment was one that I had never previously encountered. Being competitive players with similar abilities and interests on and off the court, this team became a family, and for the first time in my life I felt comfortable being myself and opening up to others. When we made it to Sectionals, my personality only grew, and I became not just a friendly face but a strong leader of the team, holding the best record among my teammates. All my social issues dissipated from my team, and my new sense of confidence allowed me to make memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life.
Essay prompt: Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
Failure isn’t always something you have control of or have the ability to predict. Failure seems to happen at the worst of times; however we need to accept it, because you cannot always win. My greatest failure would be tearing my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), my junior year in a lacrosse game, through no fault of my own in which my body physically failed me, but it truly changed my aspect of life in multiple ways.
Failure has a huge impact on my life. Although it has a way of turning itself into a learning experience. Ever since I was a child I was told to never stop for what I believe in.
Sometimes this failure can even occur with my friends and teammate. For example, during my last basketball season we were losing every game. Though My team was striving for victory, we could not achieve our goal. Despite our many defeats we remained hopeful that we would win the next game. In one of our final games we won with one point. Even though that was the only game we won in the entire season, we always remained positive and focused on improving our skills. With every failure, I learn how to see each one as a success in disguise.Thomas edison once said “ I have not failed. I have only found 10,000 ways that dont work”. Each of his failures was a success in finding a way that didn’t work. Being an optimist though, means to be persistent in things but also learning from negative experiences. As one of the recipes my sister and I tried we made macarons. We did everything the recipe said but it didn’t work out. I saw this experience as something to learn from and that not everything works out as we planned. Failure will always be something that gives us a reason to work harder but also to be more
Everyone in life experiences failure. It can affect people positively or negatively and that all depends on how they react to the experience. If one lets their failure overcome their dreams, it will lead them in the wrong path. But if one views their failures as a motive to succeed and grow, then they are on their way to becoming successful. For me, I let my failures in life help build onto my character and define the person I am today. My childhood injury is my example as I let this moment affect the outcome of my dreams I had then.
Summer of 8th grade, all I felt was fear and doubt as I stepped onto the tennis courts. My first instinct was to try out and never come back, but as I started to learn more about the sport, I hated it. The frustration of trying to hit a ball over a net and making it land on the green made me scream internally. I thought about quitting, but a small part of me did not want to back down from this challenge. Of course I am going to struggle playing a sport for the first time so I continued going to the summer camp and when the school year started, I was in the JV Arroyo High School tennis team. Halfway through season I was offered a spot to play for the varsity team. I happily accepted the offer, but in the back of my mind the only word I thought
Where there is failure, there is success because without making mistakes one can not learn or reach their goals. Failure and success are also among the few significant truths of life. My mother always says, “You get stronger by falling,” and she means stronger physically and mentally. However, the person himself has to have at least some kind of confidence and determination in order to keep moving forward in life. One must believe in himself to be able to carry himself throughout the long journey of life. There will always be obstacles set on the road, and they will not instigate one from making poor choices, but allow the individual to be able to consider the situations and act wisely accordingly. The hardships or difficult phases that come
My love for tennis blossomed at the young age of eleven. During middle school my peers knew me as the boy who was remarkably talented at tennis and I savored that title. Butterflies floated throughout my youthful body whenever someone complimented me. As the years passed, my dad nurtured me into a top player. Before I knew it high school arrived and it was time to compete at a higher level. My excitement was out of this world, but I knew my dad could no longer push me forward and my future was up to me. However, the ego I developed over the years blocked what lie in front of me. I wasn’t looking at the bigger picture; the hard work demanded of me, teamwork, and the motivation to reach an ultimate goal. Throughout my four years of participating
A time when I had to regain my self-confidence after a failure is when we were playing volleyball in our state championship game when we lost in the last semifinal. Losing this game made me feel like everything we worked so hard for was put down
Failure happens when something isn't successful. Failure is a thing that all people can learn from. Failures can be used as lessons so that the failure will not be repeated again. One of my greatest failures in life that I've experienced and learned from would be from the time of my first grade year. I didn’t take school seriously when I was in the first grade and made terrible grades. After this failure, it made change the outlook on school and I started trying. I learned that I need to take school serious or else I will do bad in school. This failure lead to success in school and I started making good grades which will help later on in life.
When I left my room, my mother knew that I had gone through a rough time, and I did not want to talk to her about it. Even though there was only a month left in my school year, I promised myself that I would be completely truthful to my friends, my family, my heritage, and myself. I expected all my friends to leave me, but I was fully prepared for this. However, none of this ever happened. My friends didn’t leave me, I wasn’t alone at the lunch table, I wasn’t even seem differently by those around me. I had failed my family by doing this, and I wished I had stopped acting like someone I wasn’t sooner. This is one of the only mistakes I have made which I consider a failure because it had taken me close to a year to fix, and this is why I consider it my most successful failure.