Overcoming Personal Hardships

Overcoming Personal Hardships

  • Submitted By: wigstonn1
  • Date Submitted: 02/28/2009 12:58 PM
  • Category: Science
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When I first saw this question I was tempted to spew out some cliched story about how I overcame some sort of personal hardship thus learning a great lesson which I carried with me for years to come. However, I have led a fairly good life with no major hardships to speak of, but that certainly does not mean that I have not learned anything profound along the way. Through my various endeavors I have attained vast amounts of useful knowledge that have shaped me into the person that I am today.
Out of all the endeavors that I have embarked on I will only be able to explain the profoundness of a few because of the word constraint I am under. First and foremost I would like to talk about my athletic career and what I have learned from being a part of various sporting teams. Since the age of 6 I have been playing sports, starting with soccer and baseball, and ever since that first moment, I was hooked. The friends that I have made and the many skills I have learned have greatly contributed to who I am today. Some of these skills include; teamwork, which I have most prominently used in an academic environment while working in-groups, a willingness to do the best, which one can easily see is used in every aspect of life and lastly, determination, which I have used in many areas, whether it be striving to beat my previous time in the Sun Run, achieving the highest grade on an exam or even helping one more person who does not understand a concept in class.
Secondly, and I know this is going to sound odd but hear me out, playing video games has taught me a lot about problem solving and looking at things from a different perspective. Throughout the years I have played literally hundreds of different games and each one has taught me a little more each time; how to adapt to a certain situation, how to solve a problem when under a certain time constraint, how to look at a problem from more than one point of view and in certain cases, how to be patient, to name a few. I have...

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