Singular Core Belief

What shapes a personality can be various things; religion, family, friends, media, but most of all their beliefs. If someone has negative beliefs, a negative outcome is what is received. Positive beliefs makes one be positive, causing a positive outcome . Whichever the belief may be, those beliefs always tend to change the way we see the world, in the moment, and in the future. Because of one major event I experienced as a child, my singular core belief has been, that hard work pays off.

I remember this section of my life very keenly, because, I had learned one of the most valuable lessons of my life. When I started kindergarten, possibly at age five, came a whole new level of stress. The first nine months we just learned the basic numbers and letters like every kindergarten student learns. Occasionally, we had tests reviewing the unit we had just previously learned, but in all fairness those tests were extremely easy. What really caught my attention was when the teacher announced we’d be taking a test, on everything we had learned that school year.

Once she finished with the announcement, my expression was pure shock, wide-eyes and jaw dropped. I looked around at my classmates, but none of them were as …show more content…
Throughout my life as I got older, I forgot about this belief. With everything in my life changing, I had just pushed it aside and focused on what was infront of me, not thinking of the the way I did it, but just finishing it. Looking back now, I’m actually quite disappointed with how some of the things in my life turned out, I know I was capable of succeeding, I was just caught up with everything else that I’d forgotten about my belief. With other recent experiences i’ve had that prove this belief to be true, I know that if I was successful as a six year old, as a teenager I can accomplish twice as much, but only if I work