Failure Teaches More Than Success Ever Can. Admission Essay

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Failure teaches more than success ever can. My greatest failure reveals the human tendency towards hubris. Luckily the incident happened early enough in my career that my ego was not bruised too badly and I bounced back better than ever. I believed so strongly in the supreme power of my superior technical skills that I was completely unprepared for the major blow that failure would bring. After all, a track record of successfully completed projects had me coasting right along. Moreover, my clients offered no end of positive feedback -- as did my supervisors and my colleagues. I was on top of the world creating...

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Capital productivity, customer service, capacity utilization, and process analysis? I was like a child covering my ears when I did not want to hear "no" for an answer. Deep down I heard the sensible whisper of a mentor trying to calm me down and say, "Pay attention to your professional growth, or you will soon crash!" The whisper was promptly ignored, its…

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