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Over the course of the semester I have been going to the climbing gym twice a week. Climbing requires many skills and the ability to plan how to climb routes. Almost every Tuesday I’ll work on new routes that were set and continuously fail each time leaning something new about it and how to conquer the task at hand. Each time you get on that wall you improve your footwork, hand placement, grip style, the dynamic and static motions, and the overall pattern you should climb. Then Fridays I’ll go back and combine all the nuances for that specific climb and attempt to finish it. The failures on Tuesdays always hype me up to get the climbs done the next time I climb. Also, every failure results in a learning experience and you can continuously clean up and improve your technique.

Personally, I find my own failures amusing and always strive to improve and correct them. For example, freshman year I was in chm2045 and I absolutely hate chemistry and am awful at it and I’ll be honest I didn’t put much work into the class and didn’t study for the final because my calculus final was more important to me. But to get to the point here I got an E in the course, E is not exceptional but rather an F, and I honest was amused when I got that course grade and am perfectly fine telling people that. I retook the course and studied much harder and got a B. Failure is inevitable, but it is just how you deal with it and correct it.