Three Values In The Film Pride

According to the theologians, pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins. therefore having pride in what you do is all about motivation. Getting motivated and doing something you love to achieve full potential is in a human nature. Scientifically spoke, it all begins from the bunch of chemicals that is happening in your brain. While all animals produce basic emotions like fear and anger, humans have highly developed social emotions, such as shame, guilt and pride which involve an awareness of what other people think and feel about us. The serotonin is the chemical that produces happiness in your brain.

Pride: satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated.

Pride is the excessive belief that one person has so much belief in himself and his abilities, that\ it interferes with the person’s realization of the grace of God. Pride is also known for the excessive pride in one’s achievements, or in other words, vanity.

As I sat there in a motionless position similar to that of the Thinker, I was reminded of the fundamental lesson of sports: There is no substitute for winning. People today often accept a misconception to about the value of losing. Losing sucks; there is no sugarcoating it. When an individual completely invests oneself to achieve a goal, anything other than victory can only be considered a failure. Once we realized our opportunity to reach, and in our minds likely win, the state championship, our whole season seemed like the rising action in preparation for a deflating anticlimax. We didn’t have to accept failure, but we had to accept the fact that we had failed. I had to accept the fact that I had failed. Somehow, there is a bitter form of beauty in that dedication to a goal, but even more, in the perseverance to continue.

Morihei Ueshiba once said, “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” Throughout my life, I have experienced countless failures; nonetheless, the lessons that I learned from my failures prepared me for the numerous successes that I have had. My most significant failure was not making the All-City Honors band. My failure was due to me not taking a challenge and trying to find an easy way out of the situation. In the end, I learned to humble myself and to not be afraid to take on a challenge. My lesson helped shape my future decisions and successes.

Determination endures an important necessity in success: without the drive to win, nothing will be accomplished. I am extremely determined to win, succeed, or accomplish in everything I do; no matter how small or large the task. For example, I was in a situation once, where my coach wanted to put me in a difficult spot in cheer because the former girl was struggling and not able to hit the skill. Since the athlete was not hitting, the skill was to be “watered down” (made less difficult), causing our score to decrease. As a result, the coach placed me in the stunt with the pressure to hit or be replaced like the previous

Furthermore, sports can serve as a tool to build and boost confidence. In a research study about the stereotype threat effect on African- American college students it showed that students either respond to the stereotype threat with a performance reduction or with disidentification and concentration on activities in which they are already successful (Aronson, Fried, & Good, 2000). Based on the findings of DeMeulenaere’s study on four individuals over a timespan of two years, students tend to be more open to challenging activities, if they have a solid foundation in one specific area that gives them pride and self-confidence (DeMeulenaere, 2010). This sample size is not really big and might probably consist of many confounding variables, but the interviews with the influential people around these studied individuals, such as the peers, family, teachers, and coaches, show many different and consistent perspectives.

My senior paper is a subject that has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It is something that I've loved from the very beginning all the way to the very end. I'm taking about competitive swimming. But I'm going to be talking about something different with swimming that's probably not expected, I'm instead talking about getting it to be a sanctioned sport in Idaho. See, swimming in Idaho is not considered a real sport, but instead a club, and personally, I wanted to see swimming, the activity that I've loved, become a legitimate sport for future generations of kids to enjoy. This paper covers the main reasons why I wanted swimming to be a sanctioned sport, the steps it took to get it sanctioned, and finally, actually making it a sanctioned sport in Idaho this year.

Being a student athlete I have had to overcome a lot of difficulties from having a bad practice to being injured and having the tenacity to still pushing through the pain even though I risk injuring myself even more. One memory comes to mind when

Regardless of how difficult or challenging something may be, athletes who “have it” continue to move forward to complete the task at hand. At one point or another, whether on the athletic field or in life, we all must persevere if we want to be successful. In my opinion, some people are born with more toughness and grit to persevere than others. ” Next up the other side of the

Pride it is what we use to express our attitude about a certain subject. Pride is good and bad depending on the situation. An example of using pride in a wrong way is to brag

Pride is defined as a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with one whom is closely associated to, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired. This definition seems to frame pride as something that is aspirational to everyone, something everyone sets their sights onto. What is overlooked, however, is the context in what pride makes its appearance in an individual’s life. In a society that set a norm to adhere by, pride is something to be seen as the exceptional ability to display

I wouldn’t say resilience is a strong suit of mine. That isn’t to say that I give up at the first sign of discouragement. It takes a lot to stop me from ultimately achieving my goal. Nevertheless, I will need plenty of resiliency once I go off to college and enter the adult world. I can’t be discouraged if my first exam grants me a bad grade or if my interview for a specific job didn’t go well. I must learn from my mistakes and do better until I succeed.

After our devastating loss in 2015, I realized that failure has more lessons to offer than success. The following season, I found myself sitting the bench for the first couple of games after previously starting. I played poorly during the state championship, and I blamed myself for the loss, which was affecting my playing, but my coach always stated, “Don’t say sorry. Fix it.” I analyzed the mistakes I was making and revised them to earn my starting position back. The failure only motivated me to perform at my highest level and to work harder in conjunction with my

Growing up a student-athlete since the age of five, I quickly learned the importance and impact of goal setting, perseverance, accountability, and integrity. My sport, swimming, is a prime example of a sport where goal setting can make or break the athlete. I remember growing up with a clip board that was made of dry-erase material and it had my name and team written in bulky letters on the back. My mom and I printed out a page containing a table of my events, times, goal times, and records. I scanned this clipboard in the car on the way to the meet, before I swam, and after I swam to examine my performance. This form of goal setting helped me keep my head aligned with what I came to do that weekend and told me what I need to work on in the