Personal Narrative: My Motivation

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My Motivation..

My motivation to go to college would be for a better education and a better future for myself and my daughter. I come from a family who barely made it to middle school so accordingly I learned with time that without an education you don’t obtain many options. An education is an extra key for me to go out into the world and open new doors of opportunity. A better future is upon the effort I put into it and how my level of thinking is. I can simply stress over not having enough time or enough money for college or I can continue attending through the difficult times knowing that at the end of the tunnel everything would be worth it.

The substance that hinders my education would be how plenty of my family members say that I
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At first it was so unstable and rocky, It was during the beginning era of my teenage years. It’s despairing to look back now and realize, I honestly just didn’t care plain and simple. Since middle school into my sophomore year I always struggled with school so I never bothered to try any further! I always felt so uncommunicative because I never understood what was going on in class. Now I can say I’m a marvelous student that will try to do my best and ask questions if I don’t understand something. The past shouldn’t appear in the future don’t think that’s your only way. There can always be a new beginning if you …show more content…
In the second paragraph on the first page, Dweck explains that a growth mindset is those who don’t run away from challenges but face the setbacks. It connects to me because I know that behind every struggle there is always those better times. There’s never a win when you hide from fear, the best way is to fight them.

I obtain some strengths and weaknesses within my personal experiences. One strength is that I always accomplish what needs to be accomplished, I don’t let anything get in the way. Another strength is that I’m very independent. I never like depending on others, you never know what anyone’s real intentions are. My weaknesses would be I’m very insecure with myself. Mostly because I get anxiety way to much which makes things worse. Another is I care too much and help others, when I’m not supposed to. For example, I help people who haven’t done anything to help me when I need it. In other hands for people who don’t care for me.

My experiences connect to brainology because I’ve had teachers saying there’s only one answer or one way of doing a certain concept. Like what if there’s more? Maybe that method is wrong? Another is as I get older I tend to follow what others do or say, rather than doing what I believe is right. As a child we, do what we want to do, because everything we do is

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