The 5 Best Ways To Build Resilience

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It is hard to rise above difficult tragedies during out life time, but it is admiring to see how some people can use their experience to help others cope with what is left after tragedies. I feel resilience is something, we develop versus something that is given with in us and either we keep fighting and not give up or we lose ourselves in sorrows, and negativity. Resilience is something we mature into due to any negative situation, whether is coping with school and work or dealing with a major loss of any kind. Jessie Sholl author of the “The 5 Best Ways to Build Resiliency” point this out when she states “The more you can leverage challenges as opportunities to grown and evolve, the more resilient you are likely to be” (3). In other …show more content…
Malala has made it her purpose in life to fight for women and children’s right to pursue an education, she has stood up to high leaders to advocate for education to the point of getting shot by Taliban to silence her life purpose. Malala Yousafzai with Christian Lamb, author of I am Malala, states “Let us pick up our books and our pens’, I said. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world” (262). In making this comment, Malala urges us to educate ourselves to better our world. To want to gain knowledge by reading, by writing and by attending school. Let our teacher’s be the educators we need them to be in order to open our learning knowledge, and not to give up because of the struggles we may be facing. After reading the book, it gave me an understanding of what Malala is fighting for, which is to give all the children the opportunity to learn and expanding our knowledge. Malala’s passion for education open doors’ for others to have an opportunity to attend school and get an education. Malala fought for her right’s to go to school, her father was one of the advocates for girls to get an education, which gave Malala confidences as a little girl to love learning and the power an education can bring if the correct sustainability is there to achieve your

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