26A – Celebrating Failure

During my internship this summer, I was in charge of image post processing to increase the resolution and quality of the video we were recording for an experiment. I had thought I had corrected the imagery for several errors to increase the quality including adjusting the brightness, contrast, and dead pixels, but I had forgotten to reduce the amount of other noise errors in the picture. I showed my progress to my boss to show in an important meeting and he said that he wouldn't show my video to anyone unless he wanted to get fired.

I learned to always get a second opinion on the completion of the work you are doing for any experience. Your opinion matters , but most of the time getting someone else's opinion on how something looks or if you made any mistakes really improves the quality of your task.

I handle failure as a learning process. If I start playing a new video game, most of the time in the beginning I'll get stuck on a certain task and my character may die in the world. Over time, I fail less often because I learned from every mistake that I made. In order to truly innovate , you must learn to fail because you wouldn't learn about a way that doesn't work. This class changed my perspective on failure by allowing to be more accepting of people's opinions towards certain products and how everyone has a different opinion on use and innovation. I am less likely to take a risk.