The Right To Fail
In the text “The Right To fail”, William Zinsser, American critic and writer, was born in New York and educated at Princeton, writes trying to say the fail is not bad because sometime if you fail you will learn from your mistakes. Also the successful people is not always right because sometime they make mistakes by wrong choices, so all the people have right to fail. To support this point, Zinsser makes the claim that teen who dropout from school can find the way to be success and make them stronger. He support this claim when he says,” Thomas P.F. Hoving was New York's former Parks Commissioner, but now he is director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a dropout entering and leaving school as if they were motels, often at the request of the management, he must have learned something during those unorthodox years, for he dropped in again at the top of his
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profession” (par.6).
This quotation shows Thomas P.F. Hoving even he was dropout from school, he achieved his goal and became successful person the failure does not mean it’s always bad for people, but it's help them to be stronger than before. Zinsser goes on to claim if you fail it’s not the end of life because if you fail you will learn from your mistake and you come up with strong result. When he says, ”What they should say is “Don’t be afraid to fail!” Failure isn’t fatal countless people have had about with it and come out stronger as a result” (par.6). These words illustrate his point that do not be afraid and give up if you fail failure is the key to success, each mistake teaches us something. Finally, Zinsser claims that failure is not opposite of success and the end of the world for anybody but it's part of success. This is clear when he states,”writers, playwrights, painters and composers work in the expectation of periodic defeat, but they wouldn’t keep going back into the arena if they thought it was the end of
the world” (par.10). This mean they are keep working and even if it's the end of the world they would not go back for what they have done. Overall, Zinsser believes that failure can be acceptable when he says,” We are learning again to cherish this right of every person to succeed on his own terms and to fail as often as necessary along the way”. This mean the people have the right to choose what they want to be successful or failure.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
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Leon Botstein, the author of “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” serves as the president of Bard College, as well as a professor of arts and humanities. Botstein wrote this article after the tragic shootings at Columbine high school in 1999. This event triggered something inside Botstein causing him to think negatively about the American high school system. In the article “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” Botstein explains, in his own words, of the corrupt happenings of present day American high school (368-369). Although Botstein may have high credentials, he provides no evidence to support his negative claims and opinions about teenagers and American high schools.
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And if it is true that the lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success then I am right. This is where my path to success really begins. It is never late to start again. Small things that aren’t so small can have a big repercussion in someone's life. We as human beings need to learn how to be more loving, respectful and compassionate. I am so proud to be who I am today because of this past experiences. I believe almost everybody has had a time in their lives in which they failed, nobody is perfect. Failure indeed can be fundamental to later success, but the expectations of success are not what people think, at least for me, but I certainly know I'm not
Failure and learning have a complicated, yet important relationship with each other. In ‘A Nation of Wimps’, Hara Marano writes about through trial and error humans can become successful. An article by Robert I. Sutton of the Harvard Business Review, talks about a method of learning from failures. Dr. Everett Piper describes in the article ‘This is Not a Day Care. It’s a University!’ that students who do not repent their sins can not learn from them. In the speech ‘This is Water’, by David Wallace he explains how learning to think is in a way knowing what to think about. An article by Bob Lenz titled ‘Failure Is Essential to Learning’ addresses the notion that failure is a key importance in the process of learning. Failure is an essential and important step in the difficult process of learning.
In life, there are two kinds of people, the ones who accept what’s given to them, and the ones who take action get what they desire. There’s very few people how actually do the second option; those people are willing to sacrifice anything to accomplish their goal and become a more successful person. Most people fall under the first category and live a life with regrets of not achieving that goal that they set to reach by the end of month or year. Eric Thomas said, “when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then, you will be successful”. This is going to be an analysis on the passage “when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then, you will be successful”.
Failure is apart of life, it can make or break a person. When a person experiences a type of failure it is now up to them to see how they respond. They can choose the high road, and become a stronger person for it. Then they can choose the low road, the easy way out. The easy way out is never a good choice. It can lead only to destruction. The high road is the right choice to take when responding to failure. It will lead down a path of success. Jessica Lahey’s article, “When Success Leads to Failure” is an article that shows how kids are experiencing failure. Lahey says that, “these kids have a fear for failure, and that they have given up natural loves for learning. They are scared of not being successful”(Lahey). The truth is life is hard there will be failure. There is nothing in this world that comes easy to anyone.
In life poor decisions are made which leads to repercussions that can land anyone in a difficult situation. For example, A teenager drops out of high school, hangs out with a negative group of friends who encourage rebellion, and ends up uneducated out in the streets doing illegal activities; that choice to leave school has created many other problems because of it. In the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks, Brooks gave a genuine answer to what commonly happens when the negative choice of dropping out of school can lead one; “We Left school, We Lerk late, We die soon” (732-733). Many people drop out of school and become very successful however that is not the case for all people so when a kid makes that choice poor things can happen.