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WHY ARE YOU AFRAID TO TRY.? I have read many advice articles where people tell others to be gray. don't try to shine. stay in the middle of the pack. don't bring unneeded attention your way.
I say try. I say fail. I say get back up and fight some more. why not challenge yourself. why not find out where you are short and work to get better. why do we constantly tell people to not get noticed.
sure, failure sucks. but I personally prefer someone who has failed than one who has never tried. I have been recently a little disgusted. ive heard people tell others not to try because they would fail, or that they just aren't good enough, or that going out for something like best warrior is like being a teacher's pet. when I went out for NCO of the year, there were about 20 competitors in the battalion. more than ten in the company.
what about you. can you tell me how you feel about failure. what advice you truly give to people trying to stand out. those trying to go to a school or training. at what point do you tell someone to dive in. take a risk. in the end, failure only makes you better.
hell, I failed Jumpmaster School. I had never failed at anything!! it grounded me. made me want it so much more. made me have to prove myself.
I really want to hear you motivate those that are on the edge of trying out for something!!!
I say try. I say fail. I say get back up and fight some more. why not challenge yourself. why not find out where you are short and work to get better. why do we constantly tell people to not get noticed.
sure, failure sucks. but I personally prefer someone who has failed than one who has never tried. I have been recently a little disgusted. ive heard people tell others not to try because they would fail, or that they just aren't good enough, or that going out for something like best warrior is like being a teacher's pet. when I went out for NCO of the year, there were about 20 competitors in the battalion. more than ten in the company.
what about you. can you tell me how you feel about failure. what advice you truly give to people trying to stand out. those trying to go to a school or training. at what point do you tell someone to dive in. take a risk. in the end, failure only makes you better.
hell, I failed Jumpmaster School. I had never failed at anything!! it grounded me. made me want it so much more. made me have to prove myself.
I really want to hear you motivate those that are on the edge of trying out for something!!!
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MSG Ibarra, I'm glad you raised this question. I myself have doubted my abilities to compete in something before for the exact fear of failing. To me, personally, I don't like to disappoint myself. I don't want to just give it the ol college try when deep down I know I'm not ready then fail. However, I've reached a point where I see things differently. I want to get as much as I can from the army while I can. I want to do things I was afraid of just to challenge myself so I don't become complacent. It also helps when you've got great leaders who do push you and encourage you and lend that helping hand. "If at first you don't succeed. Try, try again."
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Alyssa, great view. I agree. I want to try everything. I should've done more early in my career. But I had some leaders tell me to wait. I made Sgt with 784 points. So I was brought in and spoken to about the fast track. Had a few SSG telling me to not listen and I made Ssg 1 year later. People will try to hold you back because they fear you'll accomplish more than them or you'll pass them by. I kind of saw myself doing that. Quick azimuth check, fixed myself and now I am a motivator of these things. A few of my soldiers went officer, some went warrant. I wrote them recommendation letters. I found the more people I can help that deserve it the better leaders we'll have.
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I am not afraid of failure, I prefer not to use the term failure as i concerns people. I actually am more afraid of success because once you succeed, success is always expected.
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I fear disappointing myself or my superiors who have go to bat for me and back me up when an opportunity presents itself. there is little i want to avoid more than coming back empty handed.
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Ryan, that's the crazy thing. you don't come back empty handed. you come back with a knowledge on a few have. I cant tell you how many people fail JM School or Pathfinder of Free Fall. tough courses. but in the end, you are the best suited people to go right back in to the course. I respect what you are saying. I only hope it never stops you from challenging yourself and trying tough things. you are still young. I would say sign up for everything and do it now. for when you are my age, its ten time harder.
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I hear what your saying for sure. I don't let it stop me now a days, before I joined the army was a different story.
Now I have another mindset. I'm still stubborn but I use it competitively. I hadn't been in my unit long before word of EFMB in the fall and deployment within a few months into the new year came around. I raised my hand for both, and made it past the written test of EFMB but got knocked out by one of the lanes. But i wasnted back in so bad my commander was already planning ahead for when I'd be able to attend the next one once we came back from deployment. I know it was my first time and all, some people go over and over and over before they earn the badge, but I really wanted to win it. To earn an EFMB months removed from AIT would have been a huge way to jump start my early career. But I can be patient and get it another time.
One of my goals in the long run is selection in either RASP or SFAS. I know how hard it is, and how insanely few people in my MOS are even needed for spec ops slots. But that's one of the mountain tops for me, to make it through selection and maybe someday get tabbed in either sf or 75th.
I understand the value of the experience should I even have the chance, but the satisfaction of making it to that next tier, that next level. I can't go home if I can't say I gave it absolutely everything I possibly could.
Youth gives me time but I don't want to wait forever. I can't wake up tomorrow, 70 years old wondering where time has gone or what I could have done.
Start small. Prove myself in the minors, move my way up with everything I learn.
MSG with all due respect, I'm fresh and new and still fit the mold of the junior enlisted thats eager to prove himself. If you have any advice for making strides either as a lower soldier moving up, or a peer or mentor helping my battles improve, I can always use the mentorship
Now I have another mindset. I'm still stubborn but I use it competitively. I hadn't been in my unit long before word of EFMB in the fall and deployment within a few months into the new year came around. I raised my hand for both, and made it past the written test of EFMB but got knocked out by one of the lanes. But i wasnted back in so bad my commander was already planning ahead for when I'd be able to attend the next one once we came back from deployment. I know it was my first time and all, some people go over and over and over before they earn the badge, but I really wanted to win it. To earn an EFMB months removed from AIT would have been a huge way to jump start my early career. But I can be patient and get it another time.
One of my goals in the long run is selection in either RASP or SFAS. I know how hard it is, and how insanely few people in my MOS are even needed for spec ops slots. But that's one of the mountain tops for me, to make it through selection and maybe someday get tabbed in either sf or 75th.
I understand the value of the experience should I even have the chance, but the satisfaction of making it to that next tier, that next level. I can't go home if I can't say I gave it absolutely everything I possibly could.
Youth gives me time but I don't want to wait forever. I can't wake up tomorrow, 70 years old wondering where time has gone or what I could have done.
Start small. Prove myself in the minors, move my way up with everything I learn.
MSG with all due respect, I'm fresh and new and still fit the mold of the junior enlisted thats eager to prove himself. If you have any advice for making strides either as a lower soldier moving up, or a peer or mentor helping my battles improve, I can always use the mentorship
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