Success & Failures

One concept that really found interesting in this week’s reading was success and failure. The book stresses on the fact that failure is common in working in small groups, and comes hand-in-hand with being successful in working towards the group’s goal. Recognizing the failures one has in a group is one of the most impactful ways to ensure success. When you are able to see where you went wrong as a group, you can use it as an opportunity to grow and learn from the mistakes that were possibly made. To me learning from your mistakes or failures is what is most important. I see it as a way to make sure that certain things don’t happen again or help better the process a group is doing to help it reach its goal. I also feel that through success there are things and experiences to be learned from. Nobody is perfect so I feel that looking back on past successes you can always see places where you could’ve improved, like the book mentions, “the person who makes no mistakes, usually [hasn’t made] nothing”.