{"id":28,"date":"2021-11-05T02:31:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-11-05T02:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:31:35","slug":"failing-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/2021\/11\/05\/failing-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing &#8230;hard."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before I get into it, I promise this isn&#8217;t a downer of a post. It&#8217;s totally been a downer of a week- more assignments due closer together, work has been wild, home has been wild (it always seems to come in threes, right?)&#8230;and to top it off, while I was showcasing my achievements for our midterm my app started to show a bug that had developed in the last few days while we&#8217;ve been expanding on our foundation and I melted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4851\/files\/2021\/11\/winston.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4851\/files\/2021\/11\/winston.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4851\/files\/2021\/11\/winston-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/4851\/files\/2021\/11\/winston-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But luckily for me, since moving into a tech company I&#8217;ve started embracing failure and leaning into that discomfort zone more. Rather than dwell on what would normally trigger my anxiety into a downward spiral, I focused on the growth moments. I recovered from that mishap quickly, without much notice on my part. I did not start talking much faster, panic and stop the video, or try to overcompensate and pretend that wasn&#8217;t an accomplishment. Which I&#8217;m proud of, because it was an accomplishment, and the fact that I&#8217;m pretty positive I know exactly how to fix it is even more of one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So with that, make the title what works for you- failing isn&#8217;t hard, failing shouldn&#8217;t be hard, failing hard helps you grow&#8230; pick your inspiration and remember it when you start to get down about something that didn&#8217;t go as expected this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I get into it, I promise this isn&#8217;t a downer of a post. It&#8217;s totally been a downer of a week- more assignments due closer together, work has been wild, home has been wild (it always seems to come in threes, right?)&#8230;and to top it off, while I was showcasing my achievements for our&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/2021\/11\/05\/failing-hard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Failing &#8230;hard.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/rookiemistakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}