Celebrating Failure

In this exercise, I am going to talk a little bit about a time when I failed.
I think this past semester I had to learn how to become a better public speaker in English because I have always considered myself a great public speaker in Spanish but when it comes to presenting in front of people whose mother tongue is English then I get nervous. I recall a specific moment when I realized that I failed and it was when I did all of my research for a group project but I only had 1 minute and a half to present everything that I had in my mind. I did not practice beforehand and when I was delivering my message I panicked because I had so many things in my head to say and I was trying to summarize it as much as possible that at the end it was an awful presentation. I apologized with my team and I talked to the professor about it because it was not fair for my team to get a lower grade based on my individual performance. I, then, decided to take a public speaking class to improve and now I have gotten so much better. I believe that it is so important to learn from failure because they can mark the impression of your personality and the way people perceive you.

Throughout this course, I have realized that it is okay to fail because we are not always going to have the victory. Sometimes we fail, sometimes these failures are beyond our control and sometimes they are our mistakes. However, it is important to realize that there is always room for improvement and that you can practice until you become the best! For instance, the elevator pitches that we had for this class. We can always make it better and better until you have a masterpiece.