I have become accustomed to failure, especially with my Greek courses, but I look to those who have gone before me who have failed but used that failure to their advantage to succeed. I don't know how to upload a youtube video (perhaps Ryan or Billy can give a training in class on how to do that), but if you would like to see a great motivational video about failure, it is called "Famous Failures". I would encourage you to have a look at it.Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Failure Creates Opportunities!
I have become accustomed to failure, especially with my Greek courses, but I look to those who have gone before me who have failed but used that failure to their advantage to succeed. I don't know how to upload a youtube video (perhaps Ryan or Billy can give a training in class on how to do that), but if you would like to see a great motivational video about failure, it is called "Famous Failures". I would encourage you to have a look at it.
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Great story, John. Just imagine if you were BYU's water boy instead of our brave leader. I definitely prefer the latter. As for embedding videos, you'll notice that if you go watch a youtube video, on the right side under the video info there will be a link that says "embed." Just copy and paste that into your post.
ReplyDeletePerfect application! I had a similar experience with High School basketball, but soon found Student Government. Isn't it amazing how Heavenly Father truly sees the bigger picture and knows what's best for us, even if we don't fully understand! Great post!
ReplyDeleteP.S. You can also just download the video to Real Player, or some other video player, and then upload it to the blog by clicking on the "add video" button (next to the add image button).
While failure is unfortunate, failing at something you love is really where one's resilance is truly tested. Often when we fail at something we love, we find that there are greater and bigger things out there that we missed out on-or other things that we could succeed better in.
ReplyDeleteJohn, I think you are exactly right. I remember, as a child there was a book in my house that I read a few times; it was called "Failures that worked" or something, and was about all the failed inventions that were not famous (like bubblegum and sticky notes). How you fail is so much more important that not failing (not failing would be an inevitable result of simply not trying). Let failure create opportunities. Thanks for your story.
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