better individuals. The story of the cow is a story that teaches and explains how to free ourselves from habits, excuses and beliefs that sometimes can keep us tied to mediocrity as the real enemy is not failure as is often thought, but rather it is the conformism and mediocrity. Falls and failures
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Failure is defined by Merriam-Webster as a failing to perform a duty or expected action. No definition could more accurately describe a volunteer experience I had two years ago. An elementary school had rented the auditorium of my high school to put on Willie Wonka Jr. The Musical. Since my theatre troupe happened to be putting on Little Shop of Horrors that same year I felt that it could only help me to gain experience working on musicals and to get any mistakes out of the way on a much smaller
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dreams, teaching what can be done better next time. Poorly receiving it can be a burden, weighing down ambitions and discouraging one away from trying just one more time. Recently, I am learning this lesson more consciously everyday. I can either take failure with grace and objectivity or with frustration and discouragement. Everyday I grow more optimistic. Everyday I am learning that success is not about the outcome. Success is about improvement. One could discover that improvement was a motivating
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Success is a choice Perseverance could be described as one's will to carry on towards success. People have to make the decision to persevere on their own. This idea can be seen in many pieces of text including the following poems.“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Mother to son” by Langston Hughes both share the lesson that success is one's own decision. Through “Invictus,” William Ernest Henley portrays that success lies in one's own decisions. He does this through the use of diction the
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Many people underestimate themselves because they are intimidated by far more talented people but that's not an excuse to stop trying. Derek Jeter once said, “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do- and I believe that. In other words hard work beats talent. Usain Bolt the Olympic legend and a hard working high school runner Wes Schoenthal also live by this quote. These athletes are great examples showing that hard work does
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Turning an obstacle or disadvantage into a positive outcome will all depend on what the person decides to do with those obstacles, and how the person decides to react towards certain disadvantages. A person with a positive mindset may have the ability to gain knowledge and humility from those obstacles and disadvantages. When I was a child, I had always been dependant on my parents. I did not acknowledge that one day they were not going to able to provide for me, and I would have to become independent
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Failure is a Good Thing When you fail you’ll usually want to give up or feel like you have not accomplished something the way you wanted . According to John Carroll in the writing Failure is a Good Thing he talks about how failure can be a teaching experience and how “Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which often can be a problematical victory” (Carroll). The three main points are going to be the author's purpose
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I think that success can be defined in many different ways. In my eyes the definition of success is a family big or small. First, I think a family is always very successful no matter what life hands us. Second, one person that I believe to be successful is my fantastic father, Paul. Last, I also think my awesome mother, Lonetta, is successful. There for, we can define success in all kinds of different, crazy, and wonderful ways. As a matter of
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Everyone wants to be successful and lay strategic plans of reaching it (success). A narrow interpretation of success however makes many people to have limited chances of achieving success. This is because these people will continue to find themselves jeering towards the wrong direction, hence missing out the opportunities, and happy moments along their way. The term success therefore seems to be rooted in higher educational discourse; hence it logically leads to the following three questions. • What
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Some people have heard the saying “The only place success comes before work is the dictionary.” This is one of many lessons in the book Kon-Tiki, that you have to work hard in order to be successful. When Thor Heyerdahl first had the theory that the Polynesians had sailed across the ocean on balsa rafts, nobody believed him. There was to much research on all other ways that no one wanted to say that those could be wrong. He had to keep trying different people to see who would believe him, and eventually
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