What Makes Me Research Paper

Personally what drives me and makes me successful is my competitive nature and desire to win. In sports this trait of mine is what makes me a better athlete. I hate losing and not that i'm a sore loser but I become unhappy with myself whenever I take a loss. Specifically in basketball, my need to beat my opponent is often what makes me successful on the court. When it comes to pickup basketball games I feel the most pressure to win making me play my best. Problems with basketball began to arise my sophomore year. I found myself on varsity yet I felt I wasn’t playing up to my potential. I chalked that all up to just playing at a higher level so I wasn’t going to play as well. Although I performed far better when it came to scrimmages during practices than in games. This problem repeated itself junior year and I was left with the question as to why I …show more content…
With competition being the only thoughts on my mind I began to forget about mistakes and my performance. All i could think about was winning. Using my top strength of creativity, ingenuity, and originality I found a way to solve my problem. Often times to develop this competitiveness and urge to win I would have to incorporate some trash talking into my game. Knowing also once I did that I would have to back it up. I now end up playing angry during most of my games which actually makes me play better. Using my strength of ingenuity I found a clever way to work around a mental obstacle.

I knew as well as my family and coaches that something had been holding me back during games. My parents recalled me playing nervous or not to make a mistake. This all seem accurate but there was never a solution other than to just simply not play that way. This had been a challenge for me the past two years and now recently I’ve been able to overcome it. I learned how to stop playing to perform and remembered how to