Celebrating Failure

1.) A friend of mine asked me to help them edit a video. They asked me to take 45 minutes of footage that they had and cut it down into 2 minutes so they could use it for a presentation. I had a lot of late nights trying to make a video that worked, but with each new version of it I always say something wrong with it. There were simple things like awkward transitions, bad audio, the green screen was noticeable, and then there were more complex things, like the video didn't have any flow or was too all over the place. After weeks of working on it, I finally got it done. My friend was satisfied with it but after all the work I still wasn't happy with it.

2.) From this, I learned that things are never perfect. I spent so much time trying to make every detail in the video work, even though they never could be. Also, as long as a customer is happy you should consider something a success.

3.) I think in whatever we want do in life, we must experience failure in order for us to succeed. Experiencing failure makes us better at things. We become better prepared to tackle the challenge. The way I handle failure is accessing whatever I do wrong and trying to figure out why it happened and how I can make sure it doesn't happen again. Emotionally, I just let it eat away at me. With this class, I've become more likely to take risks. Looking back at the interview assignments, I was afraid of failing but after going through with them, even when they went bad, I feel better prepared for doing something like it again.