Logan experienced both failure and success as he says he went from a zero to a 4.0 grade point average (Logan 98). Logan’s failure was a wake-up call because he became embarrassed by his failure and decided to get serious and return to college. Logan’s experience with failure made him flunk out of both high school and college where he was forced to get a minimum wage job. Oech and Logan can be compared because they both express their experiences with failure and success. Oech says that you will not be a success until you have failed at least once because success and failure come from the same process. Oech on the other hand says, most people consider success and failure opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process (Oech 87). Logan’s failure was focusing on being a popular social success instead of being a school scholar because education wasn’t important to him at the time. Logan says, Instead my focus was on following the crowd and being a social success (Logan 99). Although, failure and success may be achieving a life’s goal and also not working to achieve that goal you must be willing to fail in order to succeed and reach that goal. In Paul Logan’s “Zero” and Roger Von Oech’s “To err is wrong” they both describe success and failure very thoroughly. Most people may think of failure as failing a class or failing out of school and some may say success is achieving something in life or in all areas of life. Success and failure will and can never necessarily be defined because almost every person has their own personal definition of what success and failure mean to them.
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