Three Takeaways - Failure is not always a bad thing. Sometimes failure believe it or not will help you to success. I say that because before success you have to have failure. Failure prepares us and makes us appreciate success even more when we do meet our goal. - "I seek failure" this quote got to me because at first, it confused me why would you want to fail? But then when he explained it more I got it. It goes back to we need to fail before we succeed. Then he explained how we are suppose to be happy when we fail. That made me go confused all over again. I don't deal with failure very well, when I fail I become negative. -"Brain is smarter when you are happy" It is proved that when you are happy you perform better. I connect with this a lot because when I play sports and I am crabby and angry I start to make mistakes after mistakes. But, when I am happy I could be playing the best game I have played.
Two Connections: -Kreek talks a lot about his teammates and all the struggles and dips that they went through and how they all helped each other through the dip.That might be a great way to get out of a dip in your life, having a support system. -Someone asked Kreek if he was mad that he failed. He replied with, No he actually had a lot of fun. That is what we need to learn better, even if we fail we need to think of all the memories you have made with the team instead of that one failure because that also, can get us out of the dip.
Most of your life actually is in the box of a happy fail. You are better when you are happy and failure will come. Being happy while you fail is great because you will embrace the failure and become the best. You will eventually succeed.
When you seek failure and push yourself to your limit and fail, you can work right to your limit and make yourself better. Pushing till you reach it maximizes your chances of success. You can know your limit and work that to become bigger and bigger.
You should embrace your enemies and reach out to them to make everyone better. When you work with someone instead of against them, you can make yourself learn from that and take away what you want to help yourself.
Two connections:
Failure is a way to work through your dip and make yourself overcome the dip. When you fail you are pushing yourself and getting better to reach the success. You have to know failure to appreciate success.
People who can fail happily will be better at getting through their dips. They will takeaway better ideas and make themselves better till they can reach their success.
I love how he says they take the hard way or the "slow route" simply because they will learn more. They didn't take the easy way out and struggle through the dip, rather, they leaned into it as Seth Godin brings up. I admire the fact that instead of doing things because they would succeed, they embarked on their journey to learned from the failure and be happy about it.
"The greatest amount of growth occurs when you are working right under your limit." "Fail with happiness in order to figure out your limit." This ties into the first point just because it is pretty much telling you to embrace the fact that you will fail. Push yourself to the point you fail, so you can find your limit and work right under it for the most success.
"If there is happiness in the midst of failure, you will find bigger ideas." This ties both of the past points together even better because it says that you can succeed further (find bigger ideas) if you are happy about your failure. If you think about it, anytime you were involved in something, failed, and were sad about it, how tempted were you to quit? Probably a whole lot more than if you were happy about and embraced your failure.
This TedX ties into the dip because for one, Godin talks about "leaning into" the dip. The group of guys that went out to row went on the journey in the first place to get as much as they could out of something they figured they would fail in. In other words, the leaned into their dip in order to seek success. Success in their case is not defined as most people would define it. These men define their success as the beauty they saw in the ocean and the things they were able to learn from their experiences.
The other way this relates to the dip is that these men didn't quit when it was getting really difficult or when they felt like they were putting in excessive amounts of effort that was difficult to put in. They could have easily given in when they were just a few hours in before the waves started getting dangerously rough, but they didn't; they pushed through instead of calling help up on their radios.
Three Takeaways 1. I like the way he talks about pushing yourself to the point of failure. It's his way of looking at situations in different views. He can make it so if he fails at something it's a bad thing to do. 2. Also the fact that they made the best of what happened once their boat capsized was really cool. Makes it okay for someone to fail at something, because they at least gave it their best shot. 3. In the end after pushing yourself to fail there is a feeling of succeeding. Like when he won the olympics he had to make himself fail when he would do work outs with the rest of his team.
Two Connections 1. I feel this way when I am running for sports. I usually don't see it as punishment, but a way of being better then our opponents. Lasting longer on the court will help improve our talent of the sport. 2. In the weight room, Mr. Mumm always talks about going until you fail. None of it made sense until he would talk about why it was such a good workout. Making your muscles fail makes them get stronger a lot faster after they have recuperated from the workout.
1. I like when he talks about taking the slow route. Because sometimes the fast route isn't always the best way to go, there is no improving yourself if you take the fast easy route. If you take the long and harder route then you will improve yourself and learn from the experience.
2. I took away from his talk about his competitor Jake. He realized that he shouldn't be putting Jake down just because Jake beat him. He knew that what he should be doing is taking away from Jake. Finding out why Jake beat him at things, since they are on the same team they needed to work together.
3. I like how he is saying that failure isn't always a bad thing. You chose to be upset over failing, but you could chose to be happy and learn from it too. The best thing to do is not beat yourself up over failing. You should take the time and figure out where it went wrong and learn from it.
Connetions to The Dip:
1. He talks about the capacity bubble, pushing yourself to the outer rim of your capacity bubble. This is like leaning all the way into the dip and embracing it. It is worth while and even if you do fail at some points you can learn from it and try again.
2. He talks about failing happily, which is like when you fail/quit something because it wasn't for you and so you are happy about it. Kreek says its a good thing to fail, and Godin says that it is a good thing to quit. The only difference that I see between what Godin belives and what Kreek believes is that Kreek thinks you should fail at things you are good at sometimes.
1. Seeking failure can be a good thing. It allows you to get out of your comfort zone. 2. Being around one of your top competitors can actually be a great opportunity. You can both push each other and learn new ways to become better. 3. When you have a mind set of happy failure, it is proven to make you happy.
Two Connections:
1. Even though we sometimes fail we can still learn a lot from the experience. You can learn about testing your limits and about what you can do to improve. 2. Another thing that Kreek talked about was how he made it to the Olympics. The first year him and his team got fifth place which they were extremely said about. The y made it again, but this time they got first! He said rowing through the five and a half minutes across the water is the hardest, but when they crossed the finish line everything him and his team worked for paid off. They pushed through the Dip.
Takeaways 1. I totally agree with the fact that if you're happy, you''ll have a better chance at succeeding. When my dad is working on something and starts to get frustrated, things don't always work out. He gets mad and those things keep going down hill. Now, if my mom does the same thing and doesn't get mad, it usually works out. So what I get from this is that your mood effects your ability to do something. 2. Don't take the easy way out. Kreek knew that he could fly over the ocean, but he wanted to row across instead. He said it was really fun and that he got to experience a lot more things. He mentioned being really close to a whale that did a belly flop and that it made his ribs vibrate. Experiencing something like that would be impossible by flying or taking the easy way all the time. 3. Sometimes we need to fail in order to succeed. Failing isn't always a bad thing. Most of the time, it helps us get better. We learn from our mistakes and that makes us better off to succeed. It helps us realize what we did wrong so we can learn and do better the next time around.
Connections 1. Even though that he went through struggles, he still managed to get through them. He had the motivation or support he needed to get across his dips. Having a good support system creates so much more motivation to do it than someone who doesn't have someone backing them up. 2. He talks about pushing yourself to your limits. It relates to the dip because you need to keep pushing yourself to get through the dip in your life. You won't be able to just slide by and do the bare minimum work and still think you'll be as successful as you can be. Be better than average and push yourself to beyond your full potential.
-We will spend most of our lives failing happily. It is uncommon to succeed and be happy, and it's maddening to fail and be sad. If you can turn the situation around to be able to say "yes, I did fail, But guess what!" you'll be much better off. -When there is a problem, roll with it. Jordan was turning purple with hypothermia but was all willing to go with it to get the boat up right. all the guys made the best of their situation. -push yourself to right below your breaking point. If you constantly stay in your bubble, you will never improve. In fact your bubble could shrink. Stay right up to the edges of your bubble so that it is constantly growing.
-One connection to the dip is that failing is encouraged, although for different reasons. The Dip encourages failing so you can focus on your one thing, whereas Kreek encourages failing because it will show you where your limits are and force you to improve. -The other connection Is to get through. That's the main plot of The Dip, is talking about how to get through your struggle. Kreek talks about how he got through his struggle by spinning it into something positive.
Take the slow route - You will learn more: Always take the slow route, it leads to small happy failures and learning opportunities. Anyone can fly across the ocean, but taking a boat takes a lot more effort. The slow route helps you to grow more as a person.
You can learn something from your competition: Seek out your enemies, and learn from them. Learn what makes them better than you, and what you can do to become like them. Chances are that you are more alike than you think, and they could very well become a lifelong friend.
Seek Failure - the biggest point of growth is right below your limit: Find your limit, and push beyond to create a new limit.Then, perform right below your limit. That is when the most growth happens. It is easy to give up when you think you are getting close to your limit, before the growth happens, but when you know exactly where your limit is, you can push until right before you hit it. That is when the real growth happens.
Connections:
Failure is a good thing.: In the dip, you learn that it is okay to fail, and that it helps you to learn and push on. In the Ted Talk, he also agrees that failure is ok, necessary even.
He faces a dip too: He struggles with getting over the fact that he is not the best in the world. However, instead of quitting, like most people would, he strived to become better. He learned from his competitor, who afterwards became a close friend.
1.) We make most progress just below our limit. 2.) Fail happily. 3.) It's ok not to be the best.
- He was jealous of his teammate because he was better than him. But he accepted the fact that he might not always be the best at everything. - He faced a dip when he failed to cross the atlantic but he got past it.
Takeaways: - Failure teaches us how to improve ourselves. If you never fail, you won't know how to make yourself better. You have to know how to overcome failure. If something doesn't work, you have to find a new way to do it. You make your self more innovative. - I liked his story of how he thinks the ocean is a beautiful place. Instead of just focusing on how he didn't complete his journey, he looked at the positive things. He realized that he had experienced some really cool things along the way. Sometimes it isn't all about the final destination, as much as it about the journey to the destination. - I like the idea of trying to stay positive. He says that we need to be happy. I completely agree with him, because and angry person looks at the bad in everything. In order to find failure good, you have too look for the good in failing. It is impossible if you have the wrong attitude. You will just keep making mistakes if you don't stand back and look for what is going wrong and how you can improve yourself from it.
Connections: - I think the part where he talks about the bubble relates to the dip. Being in that bubble, is when you are in the dip. It is the difficult times of what you are doing. You have to break through that bubble in order to be successful. In the dip, you have to break through the dip to be successful. -The other connection I made was when he says that when you take the long route, you will be lead to success. He says that the shortcut will get you no where worth going. Nothing successful is easy. This how things become scarce, like in the dip. Things worth doing are going to have a long, difficult road to get through before you reach the end.
1. Even though, his team didn't make it across the Atlantic, he deems his failure to be a success. He thinks of all the accomplishments and things that he experiences while being in the ocean. It's not a failure after all.
2. The capacity bubble is an interesting concept. Pushing yourself past failure and being happy about it. You don't know where your limit is until you push yourself past your capacity.
3. It's interesting that when you're happy you are smarter and when you're sad you are less smarter. The brain all works together and I find that cool.
Connections to the Dip:
*Leaning into the dip in Godin's The Dip is connected by the capacity bubble. You push past what you think you can do.
*He talks about failing, and or getting through the dip such as the time they won the Olympics and the time they didn't win. Getting through the dip or quitting because you are stuck in a cal-de-sac.
I really liked the diagram that he used with the four quadrants. You can tell just by being around people which quadrant they land in.
I think this video is partially about how to live a happy life. If you take away something good from a fail then is it really a fail? He failed in rowing across the sea but succeeded in seeing the wonders of the ocean.
I think that the workout plan of pushing you body to fail and then hovering right below that point is the best way to succeed in getting fit.
If you have the mind set of failing happy then your dips will not fell so bad in the future.
If you are having a dip you will learn something even if you fail or succeed .
Three Takeaways: -It's okay to take the slow route because you learn so much more, and the memories you make are forever cherished. He knew he could have simply taken a plane across the Atlantic Ocean, but instead he decide to row a tiny little boat with a buddy. The trip most likely built more character in him than any plane ride would ever. -I love when he says "The greatest point is right below your capacity." He talks about his "enemy" and how when asked to explain why he was so successful replied with seeking failure. If you hover just below it your capacity will only get bigger and you will aim higher but not too high and you will move up with your capacity. He explains this as a being in a bubble if you hover just at the surface then it will only stretch and get a little wider. -"We failed, but we had fun doing it" He expresses here that even though he failed along with his friends to accomplish their goal, it was fun. They shared memories and the fact that they failed didn't mean as much to them as the memories they mad. I learned in this that it's okay to be happy when you fail because it makes you better, and you will seek out success in that goal. It's okay to fail.
Two Connections: -Kreek explains how he used the guy who beat him at his own thing to be better, which I think helped him to lean into the dip more. He used his obstacles to his advantage and that takes real courage. He didn't just quit because someone was suddenly better at his thing than him. Yes, he was mad, but he used it to make him better and stronger. -He talks about how he tried to row across the Atlantic but failed when a wave flipped their boat over and they knew that they had failed but they were still happy because it taught them a lot. They had this obstacle that held them back and eventually failed but they accepted their failure and sought out more dips.
-One of the things I got out of the video was how optimistic that guy seemed. You wouldn't think that a person that fails like that would want to talk about the failure like it was nothing. If I had been the one that had rowed across the ocean for 72 days and didn't make it to the end I would never have been so happy. I mean that would have been one of the biggest things in his life. Poof, gone. Although I understand that he was more happy about the journey than getting to the end, it would seem like human nature to be more angry about it. -The idea of seeking failure is kind of backwards to me. It seems like such a bad idea, I mean, success is good. When he phrases it like that at first I thought it was just kind of a dumb idea. But he means failure as in going as far as you possibly can until you fail. That seems like more of a plausible doctrine. -He says that you find more self confidence if you are to fail well. This sounds pretty good actually. If you fail badly, you aren't trying to do something well. If you are failing well, you have tried as hard as you possibly can. You will get better from that failure. I guess if you were to phrase this differently it wouldn't be far from saying you should always give 110%.
Two connections. -The obvious one is that Kreek is trying to promote failure in a good way just like Godin does. They aren't saying go live on welfare and go nowhere in life, they are talking about learning from failure and becoming better from it. -The other connection I found was that they both say that failing should greatly improve your quality of life. That isn't really a common thing to say.
1-When I was in elementary school, I was a cellist in the school orchestra. I didn't actually hate it, but I had no passion for it, and I only did the bare minimum of practice. Since I was in middle school, I didn't see the problem with me staying wit it, so I didn't feel the need to quit. When I joined choir though, I found something I had a real passion for and saw that doing both would be to time consuming.
2-Quitting is different than failing in one key area, it is not definitive. If you quit, it means you have made a strategic decision, regardless of how logical that decision is, to refocus your attentions. Failing is the death of your dreams. It is definitive, and regardless of what you do, you can't change it.
3-To make a big impact in the world, your going to have to drop everything to get through the dip. If you don't you are squandering your talents, and robbing yourself and others of your best.
Takeaways - When him and his team did not make it sailing across the atlantic they were still happy.They still had fun and they were not sad.They realized that they did not have to succeed to be happy. If you have fun and fail that is okay.
- Do not take the easy way out. With him being in the olympics it was a challenge. He got through that challenge and they ended up winning the olympics one year. If you challenge yourself and you succeed you will be a stronger and happier person in the end. You accomplished something that you never thought you would have.
- Seek failure. If everyone fails at things in their life they will have such a different lookout on their life. Along with failing you should be happy. Try to look at the positive side of things because no one wants to be around someone who is angry all the time. Just have a good attitude.
Connections - Even though his team had failed crossing the atlantic they knew that they had failed but they realized that they still had fun doing it. They will encounter many other dips a long the way and this is just one of them. - People who have failed more often and are happy will be able to figure out their dips and how to work through them easier. They know what is best for them because they have failed and are happy and they arent afraid to fail again.
-You can't be successful without some small failures along the way. Failure makes you better because you learn from your mistakes.
-Your competition is not your enemy. A lot can be learned from someone that is better than you at something. Holding a grudge against them will not make you better but learning from them will.
-Don't take failures in a negative way. When Adam was asked how he felt after failing the trip across the ocean he said all the positive things that happened on the trip. Failure isn't always a negative thing.
Connections:
-A dip that Adam faced was being beat by the competition. He could have quit but instead he talked to the man who beat him and learned from him. He over came that dip by not quitting.
-He faced another dip when his crew flipped the boat in the ocean. He did not choose to quit, not all dips can be successful.
The first takeaway that I had was that failure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes you need to fail to succeed. If you never fail in life then you won't succeed because you won't have the past experience of failure and you will crash hard.
The second take away that I had was that you shouldn't take the easy way out. If you take the easy way out your whole life then you won't strive to be the best that you can be. You need to push through it and tough it out and be successful.
The last takeaway that I had was the capacity bubble. I thought it was a very interesting concept that you could push yourself past that failure point and be content with it.
Connections:
Even though him and his team had failed in crossing the Atlantic, they had realized that they had fun while doing it and that's all that matters. They will all face dips in their lives and this was just one of them.
Another dip that he went through was when he was jealous of his teammate because he was better than him, but he was able to push through that and realize that he can't always be the best at everything.
Take-aways 1. Go Slow, you will get more out of it 2. Seek Failure, look for your limit and try to surpass it 3. Seek out your enemies, learn from them so you can make yourself better
Connections Failure is Okay It helps you learn about yourself and pushes you to better the next time. Everyone faces the Dip No matter who you are you face the dip like everyone else
Takeaways: It's okay to fail. You can learn from it and move on to something that you CAN do. "I seek failure": Reach your limits to know what those limits are. The perceived limit he talks about is what I call my comfort zone. He says that if you want this area to grow you need to be on the edge of your actual limit and you need to take risks to succeed. Connection: Failure can be a good thing. Be the best.
Take Aways: The first takeaway I had from this was his philosophy to aspire for failure. This intregued me because most people only want to succeed. When I think about his statement " I seek failure" it becomes clear to me that that is the wise path to take People rarely learn anything from success, but when they fail, they learn what they did wrong, as well as how to improve on it. The next take away I had was his concept of learning from his competition instead of simply competing with them. Find out what makes them better than you, and aim to improve on that. By doing so you can be capable of becoming more successful. The last takeaway I had in this video was to always have a positive out look at whatever situation you are faced with. As he stated while explaining the capsizing of his boat "We failed, but we had fun doing it". With this mind set, failure isn't the worst thing in the world, but instead its just a little bump in the road, and even though they had failed, they didn't let it tarnish their feelings towards the task. Two Connections: A relation to the dip in his speech is found when he is explaining his voyage over the ocean. They had put in countless hours training and worrking towards their goal of crossing the ocean, but in the end it didn't even matter. They had still failed. But instead of letting that get them down, they took it as a learning experience. And even though they didn't reach their "goal" they still accomplished something pretty significant. Another connection to the dip is both Kreak and Godin had the same opinions on failure. They both saw it as an oppertunity, not a downfall. Failure, to them was a gift, that in the right hands would inspire greatness.
Three Takeaways
ReplyDelete- Failure is not always a bad thing. Sometimes failure believe it or not will help you to success. I say that because before success you have to have failure. Failure prepares us and makes us appreciate success even more when we do meet our goal.
- "I seek failure" this quote got to me because at first, it confused me why would you want to fail? But then when he explained it more I got it. It goes back to we need to fail before we succeed. Then he explained how we are suppose to be happy when we fail. That made me go confused all over again. I don't deal with failure very well, when I fail I become negative.
-"Brain is smarter when you are happy" It is proved that when you are happy you perform better. I connect with this a lot because when I play sports and I am crabby and angry I start to make mistakes after mistakes. But, when I am happy I could be playing the best game I have played.
Two Connections:
-Kreek talks a lot about his teammates and all the struggles and dips that they went through and how they all helped each other through the dip.That might be a great way to get out of a dip in your life, having a support system.
-Someone asked Kreek if he was mad that he failed. He replied with, No he actually had a lot of fun. That is what we need to learn better, even if we fail we need to think of all the memories you have made with the team instead of that one failure because that also, can get us out of the dip.
Three takeaways:
ReplyDeleteMost of your life actually is in the box of a happy fail. You are better when you are happy and failure will come. Being happy while you fail is great because you will embrace the failure and become the best. You will eventually succeed.
When you seek failure and push yourself to your limit and fail, you can work right to your limit and make yourself better. Pushing till you reach it maximizes your chances of success. You can know your limit and work that to become bigger and bigger.
You should embrace your enemies and reach out to them to make everyone better. When you work with someone instead of against them, you can make yourself learn from that and take away what you want to help yourself.
Two connections:
Failure is a way to work through your dip and make yourself overcome the dip. When you fail you are pushing yourself and getting better to reach the success. You have to know failure to appreciate success.
People who can fail happily will be better at getting through their dips. They will takeaway better ideas and make themselves better till they can reach their success.
I love how he says they take the hard way or the "slow route" simply because they will learn more. They didn't take the easy way out and struggle through the dip, rather, they leaned into it as Seth Godin brings up. I admire the fact that instead of doing things because they would succeed, they embarked on their journey to learned from the failure and be happy about it.
ReplyDelete"The greatest amount of growth occurs when you are working right under your limit." "Fail with happiness in order to figure out your limit." This ties into the first point just because it is pretty much telling you to embrace the fact that you will fail. Push yourself to the point you fail, so you can find your limit and work right under it for the most success.
"If there is happiness in the midst of failure, you will find bigger ideas." This ties both of the past points together even better because it says that you can succeed further (find bigger ideas) if you are happy about your failure. If you think about it, anytime you were involved in something, failed, and were sad about it, how tempted were you to quit? Probably a whole lot more than if you were happy about and embraced your failure.
This TedX ties into the dip because for one, Godin talks about "leaning into" the dip. The group of guys that went out to row went on the journey in the first place to get as much as they could out of something they figured they would fail in. In other words, the leaned into their dip in order to seek success. Success in their case is not defined as most people would define it. These men define their success as the beauty they saw in the ocean and the things they were able to learn from their experiences.
The other way this relates to the dip is that these men didn't quit when it was getting really difficult or when they felt like they were putting in excessive amounts of effort that was difficult to put in. They could have easily given in when they were just a few hours in before the waves started getting dangerously rough, but they didn't; they pushed through instead of calling help up on their radios.
Three Takeaways
ReplyDelete1. I like the way he talks about pushing yourself to the point of failure. It's his way of looking at situations in different views. He can make it so if he fails at something it's a bad thing to do.
2. Also the fact that they made the best of what happened once their boat capsized was really cool. Makes it okay for someone to fail at something, because they at least gave it their best shot.
3. In the end after pushing yourself to fail there is a feeling of succeeding. Like when he won the olympics he had to make himself fail when he would do work outs with the rest of his team.
Two Connections
1. I feel this way when I am running for sports. I usually don't see it as punishment, but a way of being better then our opponents. Lasting longer on the court will help improve our talent of the sport.
2. In the weight room, Mr. Mumm always talks about going until you fail. None of it made sense until he would talk about why it was such a good workout. Making your muscles fail makes them get stronger a lot faster after they have recuperated from the workout.
Takeaways:
ReplyDelete1. I like when he talks about taking the slow route. Because sometimes the fast route isn't always the best way to go, there is no improving yourself if you take the fast easy route. If you take the long and harder route then you will improve yourself and learn from the experience.
2. I took away from his talk about his competitor Jake. He realized that he shouldn't be putting Jake down just because Jake beat him. He knew that what he should be doing is taking away from Jake. Finding out why Jake beat him at things, since they are on the same team they needed to work together.
3. I like how he is saying that failure isn't always a bad thing. You chose to be upset over failing, but you could chose to be happy and learn from it too. The best thing to do is not beat yourself up over failing. You should take the time and figure out where it went wrong and learn from it.
Connetions to The Dip:
1. He talks about the capacity bubble, pushing yourself to the outer rim of your capacity bubble. This is like leaning all the way into the dip and embracing it. It is worth while and even if you do fail at some points you can learn from it and try again.
2. He talks about failing happily, which is like when you fail/quit something because it wasn't for you and so you are happy about it. Kreek says its a good thing to fail, and Godin says that it is a good thing to quit. The only difference that I see between what Godin belives and what Kreek believes is that Kreek thinks you should fail at things you are good at sometimes.
Takeaways:
ReplyDelete1. Seeking failure can be a good thing. It allows you to get out of your comfort zone.
2. Being around one of your top competitors can actually be a great opportunity. You can both push each other and learn new ways to become better.
3. When you have a mind set of happy failure, it is proven to make you happy.
Two Connections:
1. Even though we sometimes fail we can still learn a lot from the experience. You can learn about testing your limits and about what you can do to improve.
2. Another thing that Kreek talked about was how he made it to the Olympics. The first year him and his team got fifth place which they were extremely said about. The y made it again, but this time they got first! He said rowing through the five and a half minutes across the water is the hardest, but when they crossed the finish line everything him and his team worked for paid off. They pushed through the Dip.
Takeaways
ReplyDelete1. I totally agree with the fact that if you're happy, you''ll have a better chance at succeeding. When my dad is working on something and starts to get frustrated, things don't always work out. He gets mad and those things keep going down hill. Now, if my mom does the same thing and doesn't get mad, it usually works out. So what I get from this is that your mood effects your ability to do something.
2. Don't take the easy way out. Kreek knew that he could fly over the ocean, but he wanted to row across instead. He said it was really fun and that he got to experience a lot more things. He mentioned being really close to a whale that did a belly flop and that it made his ribs vibrate. Experiencing something like that would be impossible by flying or taking the easy way all the time.
3. Sometimes we need to fail in order to succeed. Failing isn't always a bad thing. Most of the time, it helps us get better. We learn from our mistakes and that makes us better off to succeed. It helps us realize what we did wrong so we can learn and do better the next time around.
Connections
1. Even though that he went through struggles, he still managed to get through them. He had the motivation or support he needed to get across his dips. Having a good support system creates so much more motivation to do it than someone who doesn't have someone backing them up.
2. He talks about pushing yourself to your limits. It relates to the dip because you need to keep pushing yourself to get through the dip in your life. You won't be able to just slide by and do the bare minimum work and still think you'll be as successful as you can be. Be better than average and push yourself to beyond your full potential.
-We will spend most of our lives failing happily. It is uncommon to succeed and be happy, and it's maddening to fail and be sad. If you can turn the situation around to be able to say "yes, I did fail, But guess what!" you'll be much better off.
ReplyDelete-When there is a problem, roll with it. Jordan was turning purple with hypothermia but was all willing to go with it to get the boat up right. all the guys made the best of their situation.
-push yourself to right below your breaking point. If you constantly stay in your bubble, you will never improve. In fact your bubble could shrink. Stay right up to the edges of your bubble so that it is constantly growing.
-One connection to the dip is that failing is encouraged, although for different reasons. The Dip encourages failing so you can focus on your one thing, whereas Kreek encourages failing because it will show you where your limits are and force you to improve.
-The other connection Is to get through. That's the main plot of The Dip, is talking about how to get through your struggle. Kreek talks about how he got through his struggle by spinning it into something positive.
Take-aways:
ReplyDeleteTake the slow route - You will learn more:
Always take the slow route, it leads to small happy failures and learning opportunities. Anyone can fly across the ocean, but taking a boat takes a lot more effort. The slow route helps you to grow more as a person.
You can learn something from your competition:
Seek out your enemies, and learn from them. Learn what makes them better than you, and what you can do to become like them. Chances are that you are more alike than you think, and they could very well become a lifelong friend.
Seek Failure - the biggest point of growth is right below your limit:
Find your limit, and push beyond to create a new limit.Then, perform right below your limit. That is when the most growth happens. It is easy to give up when you think you are getting close to your limit, before the growth happens, but when you know exactly where your limit is, you can push until right before you hit it. That is when the real growth happens.
Connections:
Failure is a good thing.:
In the dip, you learn that it is okay to fail, and that it helps you to learn and push on. In the Ted Talk, he also agrees that failure is ok, necessary even.
He faces a dip too:
He struggles with getting over the fact that he is not the best in the world. However, instead of quitting, like most people would, he strived to become better. He learned from his competitor, who afterwards became a close friend.
1.) We make most progress just below our limit.
ReplyDelete2.) Fail happily.
3.) It's ok not to be the best.
- He was jealous of his teammate because he was better than him. But he accepted the fact that he might not always be the best at everything.
- He faced a dip when he failed to cross the atlantic but he got past it.
Takeaways:
ReplyDelete- Failure teaches us how to improve ourselves. If you never fail, you won't know how to make yourself better. You have to know how to overcome failure. If something doesn't work, you have to find a new way to do it. You make your self more innovative.
- I liked his story of how he thinks the ocean is a beautiful place. Instead of just focusing on how he didn't complete his journey, he looked at the positive things. He realized that he had experienced some really cool things along the way. Sometimes it isn't all about the final destination, as much as it about the journey to the destination.
- I like the idea of trying to stay positive. He says that we need to be happy. I completely agree with him, because and angry person looks at the bad in everything. In order to find failure good, you have too look for the good in failing. It is impossible if you have the wrong attitude. You will just keep making mistakes if you don't stand back and look for what is going wrong and how you can improve yourself from it.
Connections:
- I think the part where he talks about the bubble relates to the dip. Being in that bubble, is when you are in the dip. It is the difficult times of what you are doing. You have to break through that bubble in order to be successful. In the dip, you have to break through the dip to be successful.
-The other connection I made was when he says that when you take the long route, you will be lead to success. He says that the shortcut will get you no where worth going. Nothing successful is easy. This how things become scarce, like in the dip. Things worth doing are going to have a long, difficult road to get through before you reach the end.
1. Even though, his team didn't make it across the Atlantic, he deems his failure to be a success. He thinks of all the accomplishments and things that he experiences while being in the ocean. It's not a failure after all.
ReplyDelete2. The capacity bubble is an interesting concept. Pushing yourself past failure and being happy about it. You don't know where your limit is until you push yourself past your capacity.
3. It's interesting that when you're happy you are smarter and when you're sad you are less smarter. The brain all works together and I find that cool.
Connections to the Dip:
*Leaning into the dip in Godin's The Dip is connected by the capacity bubble. You push past what you think you can do.
*He talks about failing, and or getting through the dip such as the time they won the Olympics and the time they didn't win. Getting through the dip or quitting because you are stuck in a cal-de-sac.
I really liked the diagram that he used with the four quadrants. You can tell just by being around people which quadrant they land in.
ReplyDeleteI think this video is partially about how to live a happy life. If you take away something good from a fail then is it really a fail? He failed in rowing across the sea but succeeded in seeing the wonders of the ocean.
I think that the workout plan of pushing you body to fail and then hovering right below that point is the best way to succeed in getting fit.
If you have the mind set of failing happy then your dips will not fell so bad in the future.
If you are having a dip you will learn something even if you fail or succeed .
Three Takeaways:
ReplyDelete-It's okay to take the slow route because you learn so much more, and the memories you make are forever cherished. He knew he could have simply taken a plane across the Atlantic Ocean, but instead he decide to row a tiny little boat with a buddy. The trip most likely built more character in him than any plane ride would ever.
-I love when he says "The greatest point is right below your capacity." He talks about his "enemy" and how when asked to explain why he was so successful replied with seeking failure. If you hover just below it your capacity will only get bigger and you will aim higher but not too high and you will move up with your capacity. He explains this as a being in a bubble if you hover just at the surface then it will only stretch and get a little wider.
-"We failed, but we had fun doing it" He expresses here that even though he failed along with his friends to accomplish their goal, it was fun. They shared memories and the fact that they failed didn't mean as much to them as the memories they mad. I learned in this that it's okay to be happy when you fail because it makes you better, and you will seek out success in that goal. It's okay to fail.
Two Connections:
-Kreek explains how he used the guy who beat him at his own thing to be better, which I think helped him to lean into the dip more. He used his obstacles to his advantage and that takes real courage. He didn't just quit because someone was suddenly better at his thing than him. Yes, he was mad, but he used it to make him better and stronger.
-He talks about how he tried to row across the Atlantic but failed when a wave flipped their boat over and they knew that they had failed but they were still happy because it taught them a lot. They had this obstacle that held them back and eventually failed but they accepted their failure and sought out more dips.
-One of the things I got out of the video was how optimistic that guy seemed. You wouldn't think that a person that fails like that would want to talk about the failure like it was nothing. If I had been the one that had rowed across the ocean for 72 days and didn't make it to the end I would never have been so happy. I mean that would have been one of the biggest things in his life. Poof, gone. Although I understand that he was more happy about the journey than getting to the end, it would seem like human nature to be more angry about it.
ReplyDelete-The idea of seeking failure is kind of backwards to me. It seems like such a bad idea, I mean, success is good. When he phrases it like that at first I thought it was just kind of a dumb idea. But he means failure as in going as far as you possibly can until you fail. That seems like more of a plausible doctrine.
-He says that you find more self confidence if you are to fail well. This sounds pretty good actually. If you fail badly, you aren't trying to do something well. If you are failing well, you have tried as hard as you possibly can. You will get better from that failure. I guess if you were to phrase this differently it wouldn't be far from saying you should always give 110%.
Two connections.
-The obvious one is that Kreek is trying to promote failure in a good way just like Godin does. They aren't saying go live on welfare and go nowhere in life, they are talking about learning from failure and becoming better from it.
-The other connection I found was that they both say that failing should greatly improve your quality of life. That isn't really a common thing to say.
1-When I was in elementary school, I was a cellist in the school orchestra. I didn't actually hate it, but I had no passion for it, and I only did the bare minimum of practice. Since I was in middle school, I didn't see the problem with me staying wit it, so I didn't feel the need to quit. When I joined choir though, I found something I had a real passion for and saw that doing both would be to time consuming.
ReplyDelete2-Quitting is different than failing in one key area, it is not definitive. If you quit, it means you have made a strategic decision, regardless of how logical that decision is, to refocus your attentions. Failing is the death of your dreams. It is definitive, and regardless of what you do, you can't change it.
3-To make a big impact in the world, your going to have to drop everything to get through the dip. If you don't you are squandering your talents, and robbing yourself and others of your best.
Takeaways
ReplyDelete- When him and his team did not make it sailing across the atlantic they were still happy.They still had fun and they were not sad.They realized that they did not have to succeed to be happy. If you have fun and fail that is okay.
- Do not take the easy way out. With him being in the olympics it was a challenge. He got through that challenge and they ended up winning the olympics one year. If you challenge yourself and you succeed you will be a stronger and happier person in the end. You accomplished something that you never thought you would have.
- Seek failure. If everyone fails at things in their life they will have such a different lookout on their life. Along with failing you should be happy. Try to look at the positive side of things because no one wants to be around someone who is angry all the time. Just have a good attitude.
Connections
- Even though his team had failed crossing the atlantic they knew that they had failed but they realized that they still had fun doing it. They will encounter many other dips a long the way and this is just one of them.
- People who have failed more often and are happy will be able to figure out their dips and how to work through them easier. They know what is best for them because they have failed and are happy and they arent afraid to fail again.
Takeaways:
ReplyDelete-You can't be successful without some small failures along the way. Failure makes you better because you learn from your mistakes.
-Your competition is not your enemy. A lot can be learned from someone that is better than you at something. Holding a grudge against them will not make you better but learning from them will.
-Don't take failures in a negative way. When Adam was asked how he felt after failing the trip across the ocean he said all the positive things that happened on the trip. Failure isn't always a negative thing.
Connections:
-A dip that Adam faced was being beat by the competition. He could have quit but instead he talked to the man who beat him and learned from him. He over came that dip by not quitting.
-He faced another dip when his crew flipped the boat in the ocean. He did not choose to quit, not all dips can be successful.
Three Takeaways:
ReplyDeleteThe first takeaway that I had was that failure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes you need to fail to succeed. If you never fail in life then you won't succeed because you won't have the past experience of failure and you will crash hard.
The second take away that I had was that you shouldn't take the easy way out. If you take the easy way out your whole life then you won't strive to be the best that you can be. You need to push through it and tough it out and be successful.
The last takeaway that I had was the capacity bubble. I thought it was a very interesting concept that you could push yourself past that failure point and be content with it.
Connections:
Even though him and his team had failed in crossing the Atlantic, they had realized that they had fun while doing it and that's all that matters. They will all face dips in their lives and this was just one of them.
Another dip that he went through was when he was jealous of his teammate because he was better than him, but he was able to push through that and realize that he can't always be the best at everything.
Take-aways
ReplyDelete1. Go Slow, you will get more out of it
2. Seek Failure, look for your limit and try to surpass it
3. Seek out your enemies, learn from them so you can make yourself better
Connections
Failure is Okay
It helps you learn about yourself and pushes you to better the next time.
Everyone faces the Dip
No matter who you are you face the dip like everyone else
Takeaways:
ReplyDeleteIt's okay to fail. You can learn from it and move on to something that you CAN do.
"I seek failure": Reach your limits to know what those limits are.
The perceived limit he talks about is what I call my comfort zone. He says that if you want this area to grow you need to be on the edge of your actual limit and you need to take risks to succeed.
Connection:
Failure can be a good thing.
Be the best.
Take Aways:
ReplyDeleteThe first takeaway I had from this was his philosophy to aspire for failure. This intregued me because most people only want to succeed. When I think about his statement " I seek failure" it becomes clear to me that that is the wise path to take People rarely learn anything from success, but when they fail, they learn what they did wrong, as well as how to improve on it.
The next take away I had was his concept of learning from his competition instead of simply competing with them. Find out what makes them better than you, and aim to improve on that. By doing so you can be capable of becoming more successful.
The last takeaway I had in this video was to always have a positive out look at whatever situation you are faced with. As he stated while explaining the capsizing of his boat "We failed, but we had fun doing it". With this mind set, failure isn't the worst thing in the world, but instead its just a little bump in the road, and even though they had failed, they didn't let it tarnish their feelings towards the task.
Two Connections:
A relation to the dip in his speech is found when he is explaining his voyage over the ocean. They had put in countless hours training and worrking towards their goal of crossing the ocean, but in the end it didn't even matter. They had still failed. But instead of letting that get them down, they took it as a learning experience. And even though they didn't reach their "goal" they still accomplished something pretty significant.
Another connection to the dip is both Kreak and Godin had the same opinions on failure. They both saw it as an oppertunity, not a downfall. Failure, to them was a gift, that in the right hands would inspire greatness.