Overcoming Challenges In 'Reaching For The Stars'

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Individuals can overcome intense challenges by working hard, by focusing on how to achieve their goals, in how to change their life and by being motivated rather than focusing on the obstacles that could stop them to not achieve their goal. In the article “Reaching for the Stars” is mostly an example in how to overcomes challenges because the article is mainly about what did Jose Hernandez Jr did to overcome challenges. Hernandez overcome lots of challenges to become an astronaut, he got rejected lots of times for the NASA, but he still works hard to make it until he finally made it. Another great example of a person that overcame a intense challenge was Courtney Montgomery, she overcome a intense one thinks of people that support her she

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