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A time that I failed this semester once when I was trying to replace the computer on my motorcycle. I had just bought my new motorcycle in January, and it’s the first year of my specific model to there were no tutorials or youtube videos on how to do it. It was all up to me. I started by just trying to pop off the fender like I used to do on on my model, which failed of course. The next thing I did was found out all the Allen key screws after removing those I figured that was it, but it didn’t move an inch. So I put the screws in and called it a day.
The next day with a little more light out I figured I could definitely get it off this time after investigating the bike and taking many attempts I finally found these little dots around the fenders that looked like where screws would go, I soon found out they were screws, I tried to just pull them out at first to real progress, and turned to google to see if I could find out if they were on other models of bikes, they weren’t… So I turned to forums on reddit and there it was all you had to do was push in a small button and they slid right out as well the fenders.

What I learned from the lesson was how to get off the fenders from my bike so I could remove the tank and get to the wiring harness. The story however did support the idea that if there is will there is a way. Also again found out that google does have the answer to everything.
I think failure is the greatest thing you can do. When you overcome a failure it’s so much sweeter, and you learn so much more from failure. Say for instance you took a corner at fast speed and didn’t crash now you think you are good to always take that turn at that speed even though it is dangerous, but if you crashed the first time you would learn quick not to fly around turns like that. Personally I handle failure by turning it into drive. I never give up on anything I keep going. It also does anger me if given enough attempts to no prevail I normally get upset and have to give myself a break. This class has done nothing to change my thinking in anything I have done.

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  1. Tristan PetersApril 15, 2019 at 1:23 PM

    Once again great post Richard, working on cars and bike can be really frustrating at times. I used to play around a lot with some older cars that I had, and I could remember plenty of times when I got too far into the project and I just want to give up. Now I look back at those times and I think that today it has made me better at working on my own cars as I hate to take them into the shop, I’d rather do it myself.

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