A Better Idea for Writing: failure leads to success

The topic I have chosen to do my research on is “Failure is not an option” Allison D. Carri and Rory Carroll from Bad Ideas about Writing, and Silicon Valley’s Culture of Failure article. Their entire topic is about if failure is good or bad. They are arguing about both the good and bad sides of failure. When people think about failing in something they get very disappointed. They have this thinking that failure is not an option, but success is. Only successful people took the taste of success but what about the people who actually fail? So, in Allison’s argument, she successfully showed how both the good and bad sides of failing can affect our minds and control us. It’s like if you don’t know the taste of failure in life, you won’t know the joy of winning too! But also, it’s like if you fail then you’re not successful enough! 

                       In Silicon Valley’s Culture of Failure article, Carroll said that if at first, you don’t succeed try, try again”, or “if you get knocked down get back up” or “it’s not how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep going those counts” Carrol uses this evidence to show that success comes from one having the “mindset trained from failure.

In his article, Carroll said what about those tech entrepreneurs who lose – and keep on losing? What about those who start one company after another, refine pitches, tweak products, pivot strategies, reinvent themselves … and never succeed? What about the angst masked behind upbeat facades? it is this struggle or failure that paves the road to success. his evidence is to show how their failure led them to success while showing that the ones who stopped after one failure still fail.

                  Basically, I agree with both when they talked about how failure can be used as a lesson in different examples, and it can improve oneself more. Also, at the same time, I don’t agree with the fact that failure is bad. Metaphorically I would say if failure is bad and we only had one option which is to win then I guess this world would become more likely heaven. Everyone would be successful. But in reality, people fail and learn from their mistakes, and then if they try again, they do better. the only real failure is giving up. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

                  However, they also talked about the bad side of failure too, but when Allision took this entire concept to a point where she ends up writing that “Failure—and a willingness to fail often in large, obvious ways—should always be an option”. She even said how lab researchers try one thing repeatedly and then get successful results. Carrol as well he explains how businesses, companies try many times and they do better. The same way in writing too! If a writer starts writing he or she will definitely make mistakes but it’s more important than failure is how someone will learn from it and think of the failure as a learning tool and try again and then become successful. 

                   In conclusion, I would say it’s a great article. I have learned a lot from it and I think failure should be an option. I also think Humans make mistakes and learn from them and it’s more important that people who we are surrounded with understand it and give positive advice and encourage us to try again and be successful! 

 Works Cited                                                      

Carri, Allison. “Failure is Not an Option.” Bad Ideas About Writing. Page: 76-81.

Carroll, Rory. “Silicon Valley’s culture of failure… and ‘the walking dead’ it leaves behind.” The Guardian. 28

www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/28/silicon-valley-startup-failure-culture-success-myth.