Success

The capacity for failure teenagers possess is infinite. Despite the infinite expanse of failure, however, there is a lack of perspective. Teenagers are going to experience the same failures and tell them in the same way. That’s why it’s important to consider failures from different perspectives, such as the failure I faced when shaving my arms. It was a horrible situation for me, but how did it feel for the hairs that had to go through it? It was the daily watering came; the time when Origin…

Most people think of rejection as a negative experience. We are quick to become discouraged when we are defeated. However, there are many lessons to be learned in the face of rejection. High school football was one such experience for me; where, I faced such rejection. I started out on third string in my junior year and football didn’t come easy for me; you see that was the first year I played football and many of the other students started as children in Peewee football. So, they had a lot more…

In “The Scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst uses Doodle’s interior conflict to communicate that it is not what other people push you to become, it is your choice to believe in yourself, and slowly progress from anything that is holding you back. In the middle of the story, when the narrator tries to teach Doodle to walk, Doodle makes a makes commentary like, “I can’t walk,” “ I just can’t do it” (6). Doodle did not believe that he could walk. After hearing his parents and the doctors tell him that he…

Wayne Gretzky & Rick Honsen Rick Honsen and Wayne Gretzky, both of these people have achieved many wonderful and amazing things during their career. As athletes both mean have things in common but with that come many differences. Wayne and Rick have a great amount of things in common. They are both born in Canada making them idols and heroes to people affected by their action and in the Canadian society. Both men were hard working skilled and wise. They both had goals during their careers to…

Self-Confidence Self-confidence lies within each of us as individuals and allows us to believe we are capable of doing anything as long as we believe in ourselves. It can be seen in several different areas of life. Self-confidence occurs when winning depends on one person, when someone is determined to achieve a life goal, or when you are facing a difficult situation. Self-confidence is also a personality trait which can help you feel successful in life and confident in what you are doing. The…

When you play you can let your emotions out on the court and just be yourself. At the same time you can also get injured along the way.You can have broken ankles or even sprain something, but that´s just putting in hard work. When you start to make shots you feel your heart to run even faster because you're feeling excited. I know when I make a shot on the court I start to feel like i´m going have a heart attack because it felt good. Before you make shots, you're going to miss a lot of them,…

I agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement. His statement was that unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow. I agree with this because how can you grow if you are not trying to do other things in which you haven't mastered. If you want to grow you have to step out of your comfort zone. You must put yourself in strange and bizarre situations and it may feel uncomfortable. It may feel uncomfortable but if you want to grow its what you will have to…

The feeling that accompanies a well-deserved victory is one of the best that an average person can hope to experience. However, the countless hours of toilsome preparation and tedious repetition is what makes the triumph so rewarding. A gratuitous conquest is not a win that one can be proud of. Without the work that precedes the climactic moment, winning means nothing. Besides winning, competition entails motivation to strive for self-improvement, a healthy building of character, and a purpose…

Adversity Pain, abusive conditions, repetitive struggling, and long term physical and emotional scars come to mind when many people think of adversity, but few stop to considerer the positive effects. Difficulties are oftentimes the very reason extraordinary people develop their marvelous talents. If many of the great pioneers in various fields had not experienced childhood calamities, large failures, or repetitive lack of results, they might not have realized their massive potential. From…

Willy Lohman’s Dilemma Nobody lives an easy going life, everyone has to cope with different challenges as they age. The theory of Maslow’s law has eight different steps ranging from physiological needs to self-transcendence. These different levels can be applied and related to one’s own life. In the play Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller uses Willy Lohman to demonstrate how he did not reach self-actualization because he prevents himself from advancing psychologically by using defense mechanisms…