This week in B283 we focused a lot on failing. I learned that more often than not, people fail, sometimes several times, before they have success. It was very reassuring. I feel like I have not done as well with my $100.00 challenge as I would have liked. But, I have a learned a lot about what I could improve and where I could make some changes. Most of those changes would need to start with me. It was interesting to me to learn how many very well-known people have had some significant failures but have become some of the most successful people. We did an assignment this week where we had to choose an entrepreneur to study that has had some sort of failure in their life as an entrepreneur. I chose to study Walt Disney. I learned that he was fired from a newspaper agency because he lacked creativity. I would never of known that looking at all he has done with his life. I learned that he had started a business before Disney that went bankrupt. One other person mentioned Michael Jordan. He was kicked off of his high school basketball team. I learned that it is okay to fail. I learned that it is okay to fail, but that it is not okay to just give up. I learned that it is what you take from failing and what you do with that lesson that counts. Failing is inevitable. But success only comes if we keep working for it despite our failures.