In today's society, there’s more than just a small handful of individuals who believe perseverance is worthless and only intelligence can succeed in life. However this has been disproven countless times over already. There are numerous scientific studies that back up the idea of hard work and GRIT almost always winning over mere intelligence. I, being the pessimistic student that I am, scoffed at the thought of this. Then one day my friends introduced me to the movie “Life of Pi”. This movie altered and changed my perspective in so many ways. “Life of Pi” displays demonstration after demonstration of the pure determination and backbone the character embodies. Before the movie, I used to be part of the handful that viewed the glass as half full
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I didn't understand what it was worth at the time. Obstacles to me were too high and wide for me to get past. I relied on outright luck; in other words, I basically faked it till I made it. For example, when I was five my mindset about the world was terrible. I used to think everything was easy because people did it for me. When I was in kindergarten, I didn’t even know how to write my own name; I begged the teachers into do it for me. Upon finding out however, my father forced me to start writing my name on my own. I tried and gave up ten minutes in. He insisted I kept going and told me to write my name ten times more till it came almost naturally. Ever since then, writing my name became easier. That experience was the gate that opened my mind to all of the things around me that required perseverance. It proved hard work can get through things that seemed to be impossible; However this just serves as a small eye opener compared to the movie later on. Another example of determination is illustrated in the poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” written by Emily Dickinson. She describes a scenario that relates to today's reality. The speaker states in the poem, “The Bravest grope a little, And sometimes hit a Tree, Directly in the Forehead, But as they learn to see, Either the Darkness alters Or something in the sight, Adjusts itself to Midnight And Life steps almost straight” (Dickinson 13-20).
I didn't understand what it was worth at the time. Obstacles to me were too high and wide for me to get past. I relied on outright luck; in other words, I basically faked it till I made it. For example, when I was five my mindset about the world was terrible. I used to think everything was easy because people did it for me. When I was in kindergarten, I didn’t even know how to write my own name; I begged the teachers into do it for me. Upon finding out however, my father forced me to start writing my name on my own. I tried and gave up ten minutes in. He insisted I kept going and told me to write my name ten times more till it came almost naturally. Ever since then, writing my name became easier. That experience was the gate that opened my mind to all of the things around me that required perseverance. It proved hard work can get through things that seemed to be impossible; However this just serves as a small eye opener compared to the movie later on. Another example of determination is illustrated in the poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” written by Emily Dickinson. She describes a scenario that relates to today's reality. The speaker states in the poem, “The Bravest grope a little, And sometimes hit a Tree, Directly in the Forehead, But as they learn to see, Either the Darkness alters Or something in the sight, Adjusts itself to Midnight And Life steps almost straight” (Dickinson 13-20).