Success: To Rise Above Failure

 

    When brainstorming success, I think of determination, knowledge, experience, effort, and achievement. I also tend to think of people who I see as an example of success, for example, my mother. She runs her own company while also being an amazing mother to my siblings and I. Her work-life balance, overall determination, and knowledge of her field all contribute to her success. After watching the video on literature, I felt that failure was the best link to success, although they seem to be complete opposites. With failure in scheduling, my mother was able to figure out what schedule would fit into her life, which I see as an example of failure to success. In order to fully succeed, you have to fail. In the video, the narrator says, “All our lives, one of our greatest fears is of failing, messing up… of becoming, as the tabloids put it, a ‘Loser’.” Which I immediately associate with the quote, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” which relates to my original brainstorming on the word success and determination and effort. Without failure, would anyone truly succeed? If there is no way for one to fail or be determined for a different result, or differ from someone else’s abilities or ways to succeed, how would we categorize success? Without failure, success would be easily achieved and not something to be celebrated, because without failure, nobody could rise above it.