Though overcoming adversity causes stress, it is beneficial because it creates a stronger individual. In the video, “Famous Failures,” it said Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” He overcame adversity to invent the light bulb. Another example from the video was Walt Disney, who was fired from a news for lacking imagination and having no ideas. Equally important, Albert Einstein could not speak until he was four years old. His teachers claimed he would “Never amount to much.” Finally, in the poem, “ Autobiography in Five Short Chapters,” the author tells us making mistakes are easy, but getting out of them is hard. Therefore an individual needs Independence, Humor, and Relationships to overcome adversity.
