Bailing+on+Rhetoric

 **__Bailing on Rhetoric__** Failing can be a bad experience to say the least. Failing to communicate with someone due to improper use of your rhetoric leaves you feeling awkward about yourself in the conversation. However mistakes are one of the best way to improve your rhetoric skills. Just like skateboarding, practice makes perfect in rhetoric. You need to fall and fail a lot in order to improve. The key is not to get discouraged when you do fail.

Failing is inevitable. When you're at the park trying to throw a nollie tre-flip, you won't get it right the first time so you have to keep trying, otherwise you won't progress. The key is taking what you know didn't work and changing your approach on the next attempt. Some don't learn and they'll just try the trick the same way over and over again. According to Einstein, this is the definition of insanity. Failing in skateboarding and in rhetoric as well, does **not** in any way mean you are bad at what you do. What it really means is that you are gaining insight in the sense of what works and what doesn't work. An old adage states that knowledge is power, and this applies especially well in this case. To become a powerful skater you must know how to pop the board, how to kick it, and how to throw it, and these skills come from trial and error. And to become a powerful rhetor, one must know which arguments to use and what to say in each case, which comes from, you guessed it, trial and error. There is no exact science about how to use rhetoric, or to discover all the means of persuasion, as Aristotle put it. There is no exact science to skateboarding either, how you succeed is different for each person. The more you fail, the more you learn, but make sure to make proper adjustment so you don't always taste failure. //Random thought: I would love to know how failure tastes.// (it tastes like pavement).

Examples of skateboarding fails which are, in a way, rhetoric fails:

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