My Cultural Root Of My Resilience

I failed to reach the top of the rock climbing wall on the playground, and as a result, I have strived even harder to reach the peak of success in everything I do. Instead of becoming discouraged and disappointed in myself, I found a way to improve myself for my next challenge. Learning from my mistakes has molded me into an improved person while giving me the motivation to keep pushing forward. Failure has taught me the importance of learning from your errors and trying again, no matter how difficult it may be. Without lessons like these, I would not be the motivated, independent person that I am today. I will continue to fail and try again until I achieve my goal of reaching the

Clayton Christensen’s book, “How Will You Measure Your Life?” gives an example of Clayton building a Treehouse with his kids. Every piece was put together with his children. They meticulously and slowly hammered each nail. After it was finished, he noticed his children didn’t use it much. They did show their friends what they built and how they built it, and the story of them building it together. He learned that the journey and the accomplishment of building it together was worth more than the outcome. I remember a time when my manager told me to slow down and enjoy the journey. I felt she was missing the bigger picture. I could not fathom slowing down. I didn’t understand what that meant since my goals were to achieve a certain level of income and an accumulation of things by specific ages. These goals were my measure of success that I made it in life. I was a glory seeker with a need for approval and validation. I was single, and extremely motivated to create my destiny. I lacked the grounding of an integrated life. I didn’t make much time for friends and my community. I was the one who always arrived to work early and stayed late. Enmeshed in a struggle on behalf of some ideal. One night at 7pm, a leader asked if I had too much to do or nowhere to go. I answered, “Both.” My priorities were in the wrong place. My values needed to change. Failure and loss would help me to re-center and re-balance my approach and methods. Failure creates radical self-understanding and is

Today, I eat lunch with friends, I find comfort in my clubs, and sometimes, I fail. When I lived in Florida, I never had to cope with failure, as everything came to me easily. What I know now is that failure is an unavoidable aspect of life, and I know I’ll encounter it wherever I end up. When I moved up the East Coast, I learned how to face failure head on and accept that there are days when I can’t be perfect. But I am now able to learn from my failures and keep them in mind when moving

like not being able to recognize failure, which results in the loss of purpose as well as the loss of willingness to improve. By not being able to deal with failure, one’s life can be put to a stop and lead them on a bad path. One must be able to recover from failure and see that failure is only a stepping stone to a better and brighter future. Failure is difficult to recover from and often leads to more failure, but it is not impossible to recover from. With resilience and drive, a person who understands what failure is, is able to conquer it.

When I think of the word “cultural identity”, I think of myself, and what makes up who I am as a person. My cultural identity influences everything about me, from the moment I wake up, to the minute I rest my head on my pillow at night. My culture influences the way I eat, speak, worship, and interact with people. However, I am not only affected by my own culture, but others’ culture as well. I am fortunate to have an extremely rich heritage, and I couldn’t be prouder of my cultural identity.

I’m think I very cultural competent because I know although you can be dark skinned does means you have the same cultural background. I have lived in Korea for one year. I been to Japan and Mexico. My son father is Haitian and when females from his country comes over they give hugs and a kiss on the cheeks. The males and females all consider each other family. It just a big different from being African American most of us would be offended. If I had to work with Korean youth, I know they are giving more independence at young age. Americans are more protective over their youths. As a counselor, I knowing the norm of my client/ patient cultural, will help me communicate with the client. I can only do this by stating up today on the latest research,

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something.But I can’t accept not trying.” We all have failed many times, but were able to get up. We learned that struggles are part of life and that struggling helps you get better on what you are trying to achieve. Conflicts will drag you down, but when you reach the top you while never give up.

I’ve learned that failure is a common part of life, but how you perceive failure is what matters the most. There are a lot of uncontrollable variables that can dictate a situation. However, the one aspect we are able to control is our state of mind and it is imperative to have a positive mental attitude. As described by Shawn Achor, in Before Happiness, if you allow a pessimistic mind set to control your outlook on a situation. Then, one will only focus on all the aspects of the failure instead of looking on how to improve the situation. Perfectly stated by Winston S. Churchill “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Because of the recurring fear of failure or defeat, many Americans are too afraid to ever try something new with the idea of defeat always close by. However, it is essential that those overtaken by the fear of failure learn to surpass fear and step outside themselves. After this frightening step is taken, failure is sometimes inevitable, but trying is the most momentous element of it all. Trying something new, failing, but somehow persevering clearly depicts how any and all Americans can overcome their fear of failure.

The main point of the article “Fail Safe Students” by Scott Carlson’s, is how failure is a setback that leads to heroism. We all know that failure is a moment that makes us question ourselves whether we keep moving on and fight for what we want or stay back and suffer the consequences. But nowadays people never want to experience failure as they think it’s the beginning cause of the problems. Where people should experience failure at a young age so they would learn the lesson and be successful throughout their lives. The author has written this article to make people aware that failing and recovering is a privilege where one can hope to experience. But many people don’t get second chances because the way of their lifestyles (poor). Experiencing

Despite the setbacks that people face, they should always persevere and not once should they lose hope. Resilience and hope often result in better tidings

Failure is an integral and natural part of life. However, repeated failure, which is often the result of a lack of retrospection on the previous failing, is an avoidable occurrence that does very little to ensure future success. Understanding where success turned to failure in an attempted course of action is part of what ensures the next attempt

Failure often times leads a person to feel helpless, disappointed and depressed. However,one should not allow this to set them back in trying to achieve the ultimate aim one has set out to do. Failure in the beginning can often be a powerful incentive to reassess one’s position in wanting to achieve the particular aims; to analyse whether the purpose is worth the trouble the person has to undergo and the whether the obstacles are surmountable.

The book Successful Women Think Differently by Valorie Burton reveals the thought process of how successful women think and how to maintain empowerment through adversity within every aspect of life. Burton expresses how to cultivate relationships as well as communicating effectively through thinking with a sense of purpose and distinction. In the book Successful Women Think Differently, Burton wants readers to learn nine habits and seven key principles to cultivate certain ways to think through any problematic situation. Burton believes that she can help the reader create new thought processes that strengthen thinking differently in order to set higher personal and professional goals for oneself. The ability to bounce back from failure is certainly not an easy task, but implementing these steps create “safety nets” of comfort, and encouragement.

The book Successful Women Think Differently by Valorie Burton reveals the thought process of how successful women think and how to maintain empowerment through adversity. Burton expresses how to cultivate relationships as well as communicating effectively through thinking with a sense of purpose and distinction. In the book Successful Women Think Differently, Burton wants readers to learn nine habits and seven key principles to cultivate certain ways to think through any problematic situation. Burton believes that she can help the reader create new thought processes that strengthen thinking differently in order to set higher personal and professional goals for oneself. The ability to bounce back from failure is certainly not an easy task, but implementing these steps creates “safety nets” of comfort, and encouragement.