You Have To Fail In Order To Succeed by Preston M.
At my technical school, while I was mixing up paint, a big glob of it fell in
the mixing cup instead of it being a darker color, it became a lighter color. But
after I got used to shaking the containers the paint was in, I was able to not have
big globs of paint go into the mixing cup. At tech, when I was first doing dent
repair, I did a bad job at making my repair not noticeable and smooth, but after
doing it so many times I got better at it.
When I was priming my bumper at tech, someone in the class didn't set
the gun upright, so when it was my turn to use it, I had runs in the bumper. Once
it dried, I had to sand the runs out of the bumper. After I got the runs out of the
bumper, I had to sand the whole bumper again before I could put more primer on
the bumper. I then took it back into the painting booth and sprayed more primer
on it and it turned out fine.
It was my first time putting a clear coat on my first panel. I put my primer
and base coat on perfectly fine, but when I applied the clearcoat, I applied it too
heavy so it caused heavy runs in the whole panel. In the class, our instructor
gave us a new project where we had to use a seam sealer, I did fine with applying
the seam sealer then we had to hide the line where we worked so you couldn’t
see it. I did fine at that because of how much time I worked with fixing dents and
making it smooth and not noticeable.
At tech, we had to paint our bumper, I did a good job at painting the
bumper the proper color. At my house, I went metal detecting for the first time
and I was expecting not to find anything but nails and other junk, but after digging
my third hole I found a wheat penny. Two days later, I went metal detecting again
but I only found junk until my second to the last hole where I found an arrowhead.
Then that Wednesday, I went metal and found a mercury dime and an old buckle
for suspenders. Friday, while I was metal detecting, I
found an old copper
brooch.
I believe that you have to fail in order to succeed and sometimes you need
to try many times in order to get it right. The biggest people in the world today
have failed at some point in their life. You also would have to fail at something in
life to gain experience in order to do something better and learn from the mistake
you’ve made or done.
