Overcoming Failure In College

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Being open to new ideas is important for a person to be able to develop new skills, ideas, and perspectives. Taking in new ideas can help shape a person’s opinion, but it cannot take away from their own ideas. One area I can apply this to is being on a hockey team. We come together each and every game to do the best we can as a team. However, things do not always go smoothly, and we need to adjust. My coach may suggest to me to try something new, and shake it up. I may choose to use his idea, but it will not change my game as a whole. The same can be said when talking about politics, one friend of mine might share his view on one subject, but I may have another idea, nevertheless I will still take his viewpoint into consideration and keep it in the back of my head.
Failure is always going to happen in a lifetime, the best way to combat failure is to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new idea. A moment of failure in my school work occurred freshman year of highschool, when I did not do well on a math test. The way I combated the failure was, to study hard the rest of the quarter and get good grades to try to bring my grade back to an A. However, despite my efforts I only got it to a B+. Failure is just a part of life and it is all about how us as people come back from it and get stronger. …show more content…

Mental illness has surrounded loved ones around me and I am all too familiar with it. They all struggle with getting and keeping a job. What I would do to help is provide those dealing with mental illness, with a stable job to try to help them get through their struggle. I feel that the honors college will allow me to make those strides to grow my knowledge of business and the world around me to put me in a position to help others when I