Is it really failing?

For this week’s blog, I was excited to put my input into my writing. When reading about failure in the mindset book, I came to realize it’s really all about how you view failure. You see, someone may view something as them “failing” while others may see it as an attempt, and a reason to keep trying. I try to hold a positive outlook on life at all times. I can’t recall an actual time in my life, where I thought of myself as a failure. In the mindset book, it discusses failure from both a fixed and growth mindset. Personally, I think I hold characteristics that pertain to both of these. Overall, it varies among the person like I said before. A person with a growth mindset may view it as a chance to try again and actually grow from where they first failed, where as a person with a fixed mindset simply looks at the failure part of the situation. A person with a fixed mindset may relate to me in some ways because when it comes down to important tests, if I don’t do my best I immediately feel like I could have done better but my chance was over, thus causing me to fail permanently. An example of when I had a growth mindset towards failure is when I was younger and attended a school for drama. I got a part as Cinderella, which included a very hard song to sing. When I first started, it was clear that I needed some work. Instead of giving up, and handing my lead over to another student, I worked on my singing and voice training skills as much as I could. I did not view the play as an opportunity for failure. Rather, I saw it as a way to improve on a skill, and do something that I loved. Failure is something that everyone has to deal with in life, how you handle it just shows what type of mindset you have.