1.
This semester I began taking classes for my specialized masters degree.
While I have done well to keep up with the more demanding class loads, I often
times found myself struggling to organize my study schedule since I am so used
to using third party services like Study Edge and Smokin Notes. For my final exams
for the last module (graduate degree courses are scheduled in two Mods a
semester), I studied neither enough not the correct materials in order to do
well. Consequently I did not do well on the exam and my final grade was not
what I hoped for. I consider this a failure not because of the grade, but
because of the lack of effort I put into studying for something I considered important.
2.
From this experience, I learned that while it is challenging to
study for something you do not have adequate study materials for, I still need
to be able to find ways to study for an exam in those type of classes. Since
they are less structured, I need to be more proactive and sometimes do more
than I think would be necessary.
3.
I believe that failure is preferable to regret. Often times the feeling
of not doing something and regretting it eats away at us worse than the feeling
of failure. In this scenario, I probably feel more regret than I do shame of
failure. I regretted not spending the extra night or two in the library more
than I feel sad about the grade I received. To handle failure, I try to view
failure as positive rather than negative. Because I even tried and do not have
to live with regret makes failing okay in my book.
This class has put faikute in a different perspective and has
made it more common to see. Entrepreneurs are considered failures until they finally
make it with their new idea. Being able to live with that takes fortitude.
I am more likely to take on a risk now than I was largely
because I realize that most of the time, abnormal success comes from taking
unusual risk. Beyond that, since I am young I can probably afford to mess up in
some things. Trying things ultimately makes it worth it, regardless of the
outcome.
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