So I'm knee deep in essay writing and am struggling with questions around failure/things you wish you had done better. I don't want to sound like I'm writing strengths disguised as weaknesses (oh I just work too much--obviously a fake), but I genuinely haven't had any professional failures (Judge's "most spectacular failure" question is killing me--spectacular is such a loaded word).
The failures I have had (because we have all had them) are either smaller, trivial things (not reading over a poetry final one last time before handing it in, which ended up resulting in an A- instead of an A in the class freshman year--still bogus and not "real" but stands out most in my mind as a real failure), or too personal to discuss in mba aps (relationships, physical fitness, etc). What do you do when you just haven't had any professional failures? I accidentally sent an email to someone important without updating some numbers--that stands out to me because I freaked out after I realized it, but no one noticed and there wasn't any negative consequence for it. I think it's easier to disguise less strong strengths as stronger than they are, but it sounds petty and whiney to try to turn a not-quite-failure into a failure. Any advice on this??
The failures I have had (because we have all had them) are either smaller, trivial things (not reading over a poetry final one last time before handing it in, which ended up resulting in an A- instead of an A in the class freshman year--still bogus and not "real" but stands out most in my mind as a real failure), or too personal to discuss in mba aps (relationships, physical fitness, etc). What do you do when you just haven't had any professional failures? I accidentally sent an email to someone important without updating some numbers--that stands out to me because I freaked out after I realized it, but no one noticed and there wasn't any negative consequence for it. I think it's easier to disguise less strong strengths as stronger than they are, but it sounds petty and whiney to try to turn a not-quite-failure into a failure. Any advice on this??
