{"id":10306,"date":"2022-11-21T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2022-11-18T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T05:41:38","slug":"failures-friend-or-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/editorials\/failures-friend-or-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Failures are seen as inevitable foes, but they really are your friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to worry a lot about bad grades in college. One bad paper might send me into a flurry of activity to try and compensate. I might spend hours getting a 10-point assignment perfect, wasting time that I could have spent enjoying other things or making sure that a larger project got done correctly. <em>Then I realized an important concept regarding failures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My diploma is a<strong> compilation<\/strong> of all my grades. Whether I get an A or a B in a class, the only place that reflects my grades is my GPA. And guess what, once you\u2019re out of college, no one cares if you got a 4.0, 3.5, or even 3.0. It\u2019s all about the diploma. I\u2019m not encouraging anyone to fail a class. What I\u2019m saying is that one lower grade or even a failed class is not a reason to completely give up on your college dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take the example of a job search. You apply for 10 jobs, but only get 2 interviews. Then, you only get one offer. Did you fail 9 times? <em>Or did you win once?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you know how many times I\u2019ve submitted story ideas or pitches to publishers only to get turned down or even worse, no response at all? When I do get published, only one or two of my closest friends actually know how hard I worked to overcome rejection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s really counting your failures?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people only see your successes. Our friends and family members generally don\u2019t count the number of times we failed. Unless of course, you\u2019re running for office or you have a toxic person in your life. Instead of looking back at how many times you\u2019ve botched up your life, look at how many times you\u2019ve succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be so afraid of failing that you can\u2019t move forward in your life. Failure is going to happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/editorials\/bounce-back-after-failure\/\">It\u2019s how you handle your failures that count.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFailure is not an option.\u201d Too many people have taken the quote as a mantra, and up to a point it works, until inevitable failures happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337267,"featured_media":19636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1373,927,1372,1119,1234,793],"class_list":["post-10306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","tag-accomplisment","tag-career","tag-failure","tag-goals","tag-real-estate-news","tag-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/If-you-never-know-failures-you-will-never-know-successes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20112,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions\/20112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}