Challenge Or Be Challenged: Challenge Or Be Challenged?

“Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” Stated by George S. Patton, a senior officer of the United States Army, trying to explain that if you try to achieve difficult goals and complete them, you will feel success and feel good about yourself. You will feel that because you knew that you have put in the work to complete that and you have felt better than you ever felt before. Challenges are always needed because they help you gain confidence, grow, learn, and excel in whatever you are doing. They are needed because when you excel, you want to do more challenging things because you want to feel that success again. This means that when you have tough goals and complete it, you will feel success and grow as an individual and want to challenge yourself even more.

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

obstacles they attempt to overcome on their way to bring their hopes and dreams to reality.

Throughout the past couple of months my fellow peers and I have been studying the topic ‘challenge’ and how it affects our lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges, some are as small as walking up a few steps, and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances.

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” What the Roman poet Horace was saying was that when there is an obstacle in our way, our true colors will radiate. I could not agree more. When we as human beings feel passionate about achieving a goal, we may learn something new of ourselves, maybe a new trait that we did not know we possessed, when we reach new heights we did not know we could push ourselves towards. Challenges are similar to tests. Challenges are faced every day, but how we respond to them determines how strong we really are. Prime examples are superheroes and students that move dramatically.

Many challenges hold us back but when we overcome them, we are left with a greater prize which is making ourselves a better

come out on the upside. When faced with a challenge that seems unbearable, one must remember

Life is unexpected and it throws curveballs at us daily. Although we don’t know what could happen tomorrow or in an hour, society should be teaching

A person’s survival is dependant on many factors. Your inherent or learned qualities and skills may play a big role and give you an advantage in terms of survival, but sometimes a change of luck can impact your fate. After reading stories like “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Leap,” and the historical narrative “The Johnstown Flood,” we discussed the topic of survival, and I concluded that one’s survival is attributed to both luck and skill. You can be the strongest or smartest person, but there are also things that are not within your control. In a situation where you must fight for your survival, a combination of luck and skill will come in handy.

Strategy allowed myself to identify those flaws that may make me unsuccessful as mentioned by Pink in his book Drive. According to Pink, motivation involves internal and external factors that we harbor within our lives that drive our path for success and motivate us to do all we know and want to do. I allowed myself to enter this challenge and was very aware of the road that I chose to fulfill my destiny, for it is after all that no road bears difficulty. It’s those obstacles of which I have managed to overcome that will allow me to be a winner of which we all are. I allowed myself to face such destiny head on and avoid the irrational thoughts from others who seems to think that what I am doing may prove too challenging and hinder my path for success. I remind them of a famous quote that I read by the great Malcolm X of which I bear within my heart that states, “There are no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time”. After all who says a defeat without challenges will not pose problems. J, Hammond, R. Keeney, H. Raiff in their article title, “ The Hidden Traps of Decision Making”, states that researchers have been discovering how the mind function in decision making for nearly a century. Also according to Hammond, Keeney, and Raiff we have a tendency to use our unconscious routine to cope with the complexity that are inherited in many decision of which I

You can focus on a goal and no matter what the opposition you believe that it can be completed. For example, there is a man named, Roger Clement, he is an African American. Mr. Clement goes to a four your college in North Carolina. Mr. Clement is striving to receive a Doctorate in psychology. Statistic shows that only 12% of students get a doctorate in psychology out of 100% that attempted, and only 2% are African American men.

The world thrives on randomness, and I seek to live on this roller coaster without any hiatuses. It rolls dices across billions of people, choosing the lucky and unlucky ones. Anyone can prepare him/herself to the fullest in order to succeed, however, no one can predict the unique situations that they might oppose. You could be super poor but somehow win the lottery. Everything could be fine at first, but then love ones dies, your house burns down, or you crash your car. How do you prepare for the aftershocks of events like these? Different strokes of luck could be inches or miles away from you. I would try to cope with whatever the world throws at me. I would search for the positives from a random crisis. If I perform awfully in a soccer game,

Everyone experiences adversity. Challenges that everyday people experience can potentially shape, improve, or destroy one's sense of self and personality. Through all these hardships and seemingly impenetrable obstacles, the most pertinent component of one's ability to overcome can only be shown in actions taken despite the odds. People have one of two options; to let those obstacles overwhelm them and keep them from pursuing all that they were destined to accomplish, or to march forward, fight harder and push past the seemingly impossible circumstances to become greater than they ever expected to be, but until they take the step that enables them to be successful -- they are stranded. All of our actions, mistakes, successes, and behaviors shape our person and what we can or cannot become, but what will always matter is our individual decisions and actions not those of the people around us because at the end of the day, we are the ones who have to deal with ourselves.

Throughout my life, I have faced many challenges and obstacles that stood in my way. No matter the magnitude or even if there seemed to be no way possible, I always try and find a way. Every challenge that I have faced always required my maximum effort and was followed by success or failure, but this one is different. This is a challenge that I would have never in my life saw coming, this was a challenge where there was no succeeding or failing, but overall it made me a completely different person.

‘It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.’ I kept on repeating this to myself waiting for my campus interview in the final year. Sitting there with fervor, I entered the room with utmost confidence. The whole interview was not just technical but challenged my grit, determination and presence of mind. And after coming out of the interview, I just knew I had grabbed the opportunity. That day taught me; challenges can make you or break you; it all depends on you.