Comparison and contrast to jon benjamin the author of failure is an option

I am glad that I picked Benjamin because I believe he is a great inspiration to many people in the world due to the ability to open up in his memoir and share the tough experiences he has gone through. I personally am pleased with the events that happened in his life most of which he failed. This is mainly because Benjamin is trying to communicate to the outside world that sometimes some things do not work out and the earlier someone accepts the better. Benjamin thinks that failing does not mark the end of everything because there is always a way forward. He states that “Failing at something is a signal but not a signifier”, and this proves that there is still hope even after failing. This typical reflects much of my life especially since I became an adult.

I have had several failures that I can comfortably compare to Benjamin’s. People should put much consideration into what Benjamin explains in his book. This is because there are very individuals who would be willing to openly talk about their failures in life just so that other people can learn from them. Many individuals are often embarrassed to share their failed parts of life and would rather show the little successes they have achieved. The struggle of having to deal with seeing the business go down can all be attributed to inexperience in business and a lack of mentorship. Jon, on the other hand, failed to sell his pilot script because this was his early stage of getting into comedy. He was pretty hardworking as well because he explains in his book that every day after job hours he would go to do comedy and this is how he finally got the opportunity to do a pilot script, which he ended up failing to live up to the task.

Doing a standalone comedy show is not easy especially for a young man in his twenties who is just trying to get into the industry. I compared my situation of failing in a startup business to Benjamin’s failure to sell his pilot script because we all worked hard but because of our inexperience we could not do much as we had expected. Benjamin explains openly his failures by stating that he never made it past the first meeting of the cub troop in the group of other scout kids that he had joined. He was merely intimidated by the abilities of the kid who helped him get recruited. Jon elaborates that this particular kid, whose father was the head of the cub troop, had the ability to tie something in more than five hundred knots that are different.

To Benjamin, this was amazing and extraordinary in a way because he personally could not do this as good as his counterpart. This made him drop out of the team the very same day he was recruited. I tend to think that this contributed to the difference that we also showcase of how to bring up our children. I have brought up my daughter with a lot of care and protection because I believe that girls go through tougher challenges when growing up than their counterparts boys. However, Benjamin has made it clear in his book that he failed from the very start as a father when his son was born. When the baby is born, Benjamin gets moody because of the scenes that he sees in his wife’s room.

He expresses his failure as a new father when he says that he cried on realizing that his wife had delivered a boy. I am a parent too but this is where our difference comes in because, in as much as I have a kid, I have never failed in my duties of parenting. Benjamin is very clear in his mind when he indicates he failed as a new father. Jon explains his failures as a father when he begins by indicating that he feels that he had already failed right at the start when he ejaculated and that this “was not the best gamble”. New fathers are often expected to be happy that they have a new member of the family added to their ranks. This was not necessarily the case with Benjamin.

Even after being stopped by the wife, Jon did not proceed to take them home first. “I need to stop at Duane Reade to pick my medication”7, is what Benjamin had to tell his wife on their way home. This was very irresponsible of him as a new father who is taking his family home during the winter, in a car that is poorly heated. I personally would sacrifice a lot just to have my child stay comfortable. This is exactly why I feel there is a big difference between me and Benjamin on matters regarding parenting.