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to School Not only were students taught to learn from losses and move forward

– Book sharing session by the PTA from mistakes, but they were taught the importance of developing qualities
that would help them grow and succeed through reading Sometimes You Win
- Sometimes You Learn for Teens.

2B (32) Aris Yum
How a humble person learns from mistakes 3A (19) Angel Lee
Have you ever made a mistake before? What went wrong? My Attitude on Failure
When did it go wrong? Anyway, no one is immune to
making mistakes, we are all just human! However, if we Do you remember the last time that you failed? Do you think you
apologize but just carry on as before, we will be in danger of will have another failure? Are you afraid of it? I believe that the
repeating the same error. Therefore, it is important that we reason for being afraid of failure is not just that you do want to fail, 3A (17) Cody Law
forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our but because you do not want to let someone down. My A
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errors and move on.
If you ask me how much I am scared of failure, I will answer that
Someone said “Humble people are never afraid to admit they were it is about 50% out of 100%. I am afraid of failure. I do not want to Have you ever failed? I’m sure all of us have. However, how do you overcome
wrong” and I could not agree more with this. This sentence makes face it because this means I have not achieved the expectations of those obstacles that make you fail? Ignore them? Get stuck in them? Or
me remember a recent mistake that I made. One day after school, I family, friends, and myself. However, I admit that failure must exist try to think a way to deal with them? People always say “No pain, no gain”,
went to a shopping mall which was near to our school with Emily. as we need constant innovation and progress. A quote by Philippa that’s right. The former British politician Sir Winston Churchill said “Success is
Suddenly, my father called me and told me to return home as soon as Gregory, “Sometimes we win, sometimes we learn.” Every failure stumbling from failure.” If we never try, we’ll never know.
possible since he had to go to work after dinner, and I did not want that occurs can become a great learning experience or opportunity When I was in primary school, my English results were really bad. I never got
him to wait for me. Therefore, I ran like Usain St. Leo Bolt to my home. to take us to the newer and greater height in our own lives. a pass in my tests or exams. I was really depressed. Why? I tried hard! Then
Unfortunately, I stumbled and my chin “kissed” the cement floor.
My chin was in excessive loss of blood and some people helped me When I do mess up, it is inevitable that anger and sadness get I started to blame others. I blamed my English teacher for her bad teaching.
call the ambulance. After a few weeks, my wound healed but it stirred up. I am angry as I think that I am incompetent. I can’t I also blamed on my parents for being born stupid. But I never envisaged
left a scar on my face. I think I should be proud of the scars in my believe that I failed. I am sad as I have tried my best at something my own problem. At the end of Primary 5, my class teacher said to me “Do
life, because each one holds a lifetime worth of lessons. This scar is but I still failed, and all my efforts seem to be turned into nothing. you really put your whole effort in English?” she asked. I thought for a few
not an ordinary scar. It provides me with a lesson, and tells me not to At that moment, I feel defeated. I don’t want to try anymore. Can seconds. I didn’t even study when I had an English test. I was really regretful.
run on the cement floor while carrying my schoolbag. However, I give up? No, I can’t. An ancient Chinese proverb said, “Failure is I have the ability to study, why didn’t I treasure this ability? I have wasted my
don’t tell anyone, because behind every scar there is an untold the mother of success.” Thomas Edison tried 10,000 times to find time and disappointed my parents’ expectations.
story, and… this is my untold story between me and my scar! a way to invent the light bulb. If you want to succeed, you must go I used the advice that my teachers gave me to study. It really worked. My
Let’s be honest, no one likes making mistakes, or losing their time, through failure, even if you fail many times. I have to keep trying in English improved by at least 20 marks! I was really proud of myself. My
order to one day succeed.
energy and money. That’s why we need to learn from our mistakes. efforts were not wasted. Although I had a really hard time, it was worth it
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn Failure is a part of learning, we need not mind it. If there is success, when I saw my result.
from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. there must be failure. Actually, failure isn’t that terrible. The more Failure makes us stir up. It’s hard to overcome. We must learn to find a way
terrible thing is you choose to give up after the failure. “Ever tried. to deal with failure as it is one of the processes to success. Everyone makes
Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Don’t worry mistakes, but we should learn from them, and try again, fail again, and fail
about failure, just learn from failure and create the next success. better.

4D (6) Phoebe Chung
My Response to Mistakes

Mistakes are spinning around me. When I make a
mistake or fail, I feel unhappy and afraid of others 5A (4) Michelle Cheng
noticing my mistakes. It is a little difficult for me to
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me. Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure. I
have made this sentence my motto. Everyone is afraid of failure. I am
It is so difficult for me to admit my mistakes. Many people are really afraid; I’m also one of them. When also afraid of failure. I do not overcome challenges by making them
Mistakes will only affect my image and my speed. I have messed something up, I will definitely feel angry smaller but by making myself bigger.
I should hide them deep in my mind. When I make and sad. But it is not that difficult for me to get unstuck
a mistake, I will try to cover it up or push it on to and move forward, because I know it is useless and time- Attitude is the factor which leads to success or failure. A negative
others and say it is not my fault! But I should not be wasting to be angry or sad, and all I need to do is find out attitude virtually guarantees failure. It programs my mind to fail just as
like that! I should think positively and correct my the problems that caused the failure and think of some effectively as a positive attitude programs success and not to make any
mistakes, not deny them. But I’m not brave enough! solutions to solve them. excuses. Failure is success a step closer. I believe failure is temporary
If everyone notices my mistakes, they will tease me, because of the positive attitude.
they will remember them! If I need to slow down to For example, it is well-known that I am very weak in I mostly mess up when things are not on schedule, when things are
correct my mistake or confess my mistake, I can’t be Mathematics. I don’t know why this boring subject exists in not followed step by step. When things cannot run smoothly, I may
this world. Although I hate it a lot, I still want to get a pass
as fast as I want to be! I want to do everything right, easily get mad and have no patience at all. Also, while I am competing
neat and tidy; do everything great, with no mistakes. as it will lower my average mark, and it is shown on the in a competition with others, if I cannot do my best or I cannot win
These things are what everyone wants but it is not result card if I fail. Therefore, I have started to concentrate the game, I will be extremely angry with myself. Even when I have
easy to reach. We should learn from our mistakes more during mathematics and I will do the past papers arguments with my family and friends, if no consensus can be reached,
but not hide them. Learning from mistakes may for revision the night before the test instead of giving I feel defeated. Sometimes when I feel upset, I will also blame myself
sound like failure, and you may fail, but you learn up like I did before. Unluckily, I got 37 out of 100 in the or even hate myself.
examination. I felt sad because I failed again, even though
to get up and start again, not get stuck in the failure
and continue making the same mistakes again and I put in lots of effort. After a while, I started to understand It is utterly hard for me to get unstuck and move forward when I fail
again. that sadness is useless for improvement because it can’t as I lose my confidence, motivation and even others’ support and
change this fact from happening. I calmed myself down encouragement. Moreover, now I am not that attached to results, but
Not trying to hide my mistakes may help me to and started to think of how to make my mathematics more on the learning process, I focus on the attitude towards making
reduce the number of mistakes I make and focus become better. I decided to have private tutorial lessons mistakes since the learning process is more important. If I do not
on correcting new mistakes. This is better than when I’m free in order to revise what the teachers have learn from my mistakes, I cannot maximize my improvement. I should
making the same old mistakes. Some mistakes may taught in school. The reason why I need to repeat lessons strengthen myself from failure and become stronger. If I am afraid of
disappear, but there will always be new mistakes. is because I discovered that I always miss some key parts of failure, I may not know what mistakes I have made and I cannot even
Don’t be afraid of them as they won’t affect your each chapter during lessons, and with my weak basic level know how I can learn from the mistakes to make improvements. Do
image, but will turn you into a better person or even of mathematics it makes me lag behind other classmates. not worry too much about gains and losses, but focus on the process.
change your life from a failure to success.
I bet all of you are interested in my results after taking the The process allows me to keep making improvement and the progress
private tutorial classes, and I’m glad to tell that I passed is also introspective.
the final mathematics examination. However, I’m not going Selecting the right attitude can achieve maximum results, the right
to use this passage to show off about how good my results attitude can help me soar to greater heights than ever before and
were. I want to tell all of you that failure is not a barrier, create extraordinary lives.
the real problem is not trying to do anything to improve on
that failure. Failure can’t be solved by itself. Therefore, you
must change your attitude to face it, and you’ll find that
failure isn’t as scary as you expected.
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