Every person has faced fear at least once in their life. Fear of death, rejection, and the worst, failure. This fear is plainly shown in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through Okonkwo’s hamartia that moves him towards his eventual demise. Achebe proves that living solely by fear of failure will create the very thing one’s life is motivated to destroy. Okonkwo’s fear of failure manifests itself in five distinct ways: Fear of following in his father’s footsteps, fear of becoming feminine, fear of
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William Zinsser believes that “failure isn’t fatal” and sometimes, it can even better you chances of success. I agree with this statement because when people fail it provides them with the knowledge and experience they need to achieve their goal, failing can push a person to work harder, and lastly failure can provide one with opportunities they would not have had before. Failing can teach people things, when successful entrepreneur Ben Huh’s first business (Raydium) failed due to lack of finances
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I believe that you should never take failure as an option. There is always a way around failure, you just have to continue to look for it and not give up. Failure is a way of reaching success and showing you have the strength to keep going and the courage that others lack. If you have ever had the feeling of success, you should never want to take failure as an answer because the feeling of accomplishment is amazing. I failed to make the basketball team last year because I never have played on a school
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Failure is a term in my household that has been denounced, however, since entering the 6th grade, I have had a sense of low self-esteem and failure, given I felt I never lived up to my parents expectation for both my academic as well as my religious life. The breaking point being my 11th grade year. Yes, not too far ago, I had decided to take my first AP class, AP Language & Composition, I had entered the class as optimistic and jovial as a kindergartner on their first day of school. I was quickly
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Bill Cosby once said, "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." In many ways, this statement is profound and true. To get anywhere in life, we all must first have the drive and the desire to even begin the journey to a better place. However, I believe the fear of failure and failure itself also plays an important role in changing and propelling our lives. This year has been the hardest ones I have ever experienced in my life. I was quick to learn
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Many people have a skewed definition of success. They think that success means being better than everyone else or proving yourself to the world. These people are misled, because success is much easier to achieve than that, if you truly want it. Success means being the best that you can be. Because success is very important and people need to know what success really means, I will use one quote to explain success. Of all of the quotes I’ve heard about success, the one that describes success the best
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LTC(R) Yingling’s article, “A Failure in Generalship” argues that America’s generals failed to prepare our armed forces for war and advise civilian authorities on the application of force to achieve the aims of policy. The argument he presented in this article is weak, and I will argue this under two premises. First, LTC(R) Yingling utilized fallacies throughout his argument to support claims of generalship failures. Second, he excludes the other points of possible failure to focus on one set of rank
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and perseverance found the solution and a new invention took place. For a confident person, the word ‘impossible’ is no where in his dictionary. A determined and dedicated person finds way in all complexities undaunted by the initial problems and failures he keeps on finding solution to every teaser and one day he achieves his cherished goal. Confidence is the most important key to success. It boosts the morale and creates determination to attain a goal.
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someone or something else for the outcomes but when we do something right or something good happens to us we usually say it is because we for example put a lot of effort in the task, because we are lucky and so on. But, to what do we attribute our failures and success? Many theorists state that we attribute them to four factors, effort, ability, luck and task difficulty. The former factors are said to be internal and the latter external. On the other hand we can categorize them according to stability
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of skills or knowledge”. However the careful analysis leads us to a completely different perspective of the situation. The actual problem with Rajesh was that while his ambitions were high, he was not well prepared to handle failures. In fact his high ambitions made each failure appear bigger in his self appraisal.
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