Article Analysis: Are You A Loser By Jeremy Lin

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According to the article “Are You a Loser,” Jeremy Lin demonstrated Resilience. Resilience is the ability to back you up when you fall and fail, it moves you forward. Resilient people always fall down but they know how to get back up on the road. Jeremy Lin has always fallen down while playing basketball but he always stood back up. In Jeremy’s early career he has always been sitting on a bench, his coaches wouldn’t call him up to play, but he coped it, he managed to get through it. For many years Jeremy has been ignored by his coaches, he was even called “the weakest player on the team,” but he was patient, “he finally got a chance to play on the court for the New York Knicks, he surprised everyone.” Jeremy did have trouble in his early career,

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