1) Time this semester I failed- Elevator pitches
-I would say over the course of the three elevator pitches we did I must have messed up over 20 times. From right of the start, or even to the last 10 seconds I messed up forcing me to re do them. The bloopers are actually quite funny as a few cuss words might have slipped out in frustration when messing up. One example would be in my elevator pitch number one when stating facts about textbook costs and average spending of college students. I must have messed this up 5 times due to the facts being one after another in the pitch and having to do them over again. This was very frustrating as it took me like 30 mins to finally not mess up for each pitch.
2) What I learned from it
The biggest thing I learned from messing up on the pitches is to try and minimize frustration when failure is present. Getting frustrated only led me to messing up more and seemed like an ongoing issue causing more mistakes. I learned to try and keep my cool and to focus on the next try which helped me a lot. By the third elevator pitch I was able to keep my cool and finish it much quicker than the previous two.
3) What I think about failure
I believe failure will always be present in every humans life. I think it is very tough and something that everyone will go through constantly over the course of their lifetime. I handle failure in a way of competition. Of course when it happens I may be sad or upset and that is natural for most people. But the way I handle it is to want to be better or beat the person next time who just beat me say in a sport. I am a great competitor that doesn't like to lose and carry that when dealing with failure. Behaviorally I may seem to get upset at the time and emotionally frustrated as well. This class has defintelty helped with failure for me and I would take a risk after this class. One main thing I learned from Professor Pryor in lecture is most entrepreneurs fail in life, but the ones who keep taking risks are the ones who can succeed.
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Hey Alex,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I would just like to agree with you that the elevator pitches took a lot of time. The worst is when you are right about to finish but freeze up on a last fact and blow the whole thing. I also agree that it is very important to minimize frustration. Frustration only distracts you even more and makes your performance ability decline. Confidence is key just keep getting back up and moving forward.
Hello Alex Johnson
ReplyDeleteI agree that frustration with failure in repeats task can be quite annoying. Do it does not happen a lot to me, when related to most my schoolwork. Do to fact they’re onetime thing, such as only getting one try for your exam. But when I play game I could related as when I start failing in task. A keep trying multiple time, after while I start performing worst rather than improving. At such I feel that one should either take break in such situation or try to mentally calm yourself like you said. So, I feel that failure teach you an important lesson, and you probably would be able to better in future elevator pitch by staying constantly focus without letting frustration from doing retake effect performance.