I was brought up on the core principle of always to try my best. However, somewhere in my brain the definition of “best” and “perfect” got mixed up. Ever since I started school, I was expected—or so I thought—to keep up a persona of perfection that I felt that I could never escape. Teachers in elementary school would use my notes as their own to teach the next class. Friends would come to me for advice or help before going to their own family. I was used as the demonstration on how a project should be completed. I hated the attention. While I did—and still do—enjoy doing well on my assignments, I would have used to have rather written an entire research paper on the history of grass, than having my work pointed out in front of the class as a “prized possession” and have peers’ glaring eyes turn to me.
This caused me for most of my life to wander around thinking as if I was part of an experiment; thinking that I was a prototype that teachers wanted to mold the rest of their students into. Despite this mindset, I continued to work myself tirelessly, to keep up the perfection so that I did not let anyone down. This mentality carried with me until my junior year when I realized that a grade was
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I simply told him that he was wrong and deliberately enrolled in it to prove him so. I accepted the fact that parents do know what is best for their children, but regardless of the struggle, I pushed myself day in and day out to try my hardest to be proud of all of the work I put in despite whatever outcome I was to receive. As my knowledge grows, I realize that there is rarely a consistent definition as to the perfect way to do something. More often than not, an idea is put into our heads that tells us that there’s only one correct way to do something, when in reality there are many approaches that will provide beneficial
Every day in our lives, we desire to be perfect to please others. No matter how hard we try, if we do not achieve the concept of being perfect, then we will feel like failure. For example, every year at the Olympics, a newly crowned Olympic champion receiving a gold medal persuades young athletes to worry about winning a medal in every competition they compete. If they do not win a medal in a certain competition, then all their hopes are vanished for the next competition. This action shows how if we do not strive to emulate other people’s achievements, then we will not stand out from the rest of our population.
One experience that stood out to me in the book “Trauma Junkie, Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse” would be the first flight that Janice is involved with in the beginning of the book. During this incident, the emergency flight rescue team is called to Santa Cruz for a motorcycle accident. While in the helicopter on the way there Janice is very nervous and messes up on her radio calls to back to base and freezes up a couple of times. Janice has to ask her co worker Harry for some help with the radio a couple times. When the helicopter lands, the rescue team finds a firefighter and asks him what is going on and they figure out that there have been multiple accidents very close to one another, about a mile apart from each other to be exact.
Trauma can impact someone’s life to where they can’t make connections with anyone. Even connecting with family it would be hard.Trauma changes the way they see the world and other people. In both Good Will Hunting and The Catcher in the Rye, Will and Holden go through traumatic events that change their lives. This makes them see everything negatively and impacts their ability to cope.
It also counters the point that focusing on your own knowledge and talent will eventually lead to failure. Dweck was able to gather his information by viewing, analyzing, and conducting studies about topics relating to effort and how it is applied. Teachers, parents and students with the want for engendering success into themselves or in their peers would be the reasonable audience for this article. In contrast to Gladwell’s article, both of the articles discusses the effort that students or people in general put into their work for their success. The article highlights the proper mindset and efforts a student or human needs to succeed in school and in
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
In today’s modern society it is known for people to be a little too concerned with the way people perceive them. What do you think when a person says they want to be perfect, do you think appearance, money, knowledge, or maybe even social status? The pursuit of perfection should not be a standard of modern society due to the effects it has on one’s health and social life.
In todays society to be “perfect” one must follow society’s criteria. This criteria can depend on what type of perfection one is following. There are different types of perfection such as self oriented perfection, socially prescribed perfection, other oriented perfection, overt perfection, and covert perfection. These types of perfection are all different in how a person is “perfect”. Trying to be perfect can have its benefits but it causes mental health problems that make it not worth it. Rachel Rettner said, “Though perfection is an impossible goal, striving for it can be a boon for one's health, causing one to stick to exercise programs to a tee, say, or follow a strict regimen for treating chronic illnesses like type
Another example of my perseverance can be seen in my undergraduate grade trend. My first semester of college was extremely difficult. I am a first generation higher education student and I had to rise to an entirely new level of difficulty and competition in my courses and overall environment compared to high school. In addition, I missed my family; it was my first time away from home and my three brothers. I worked immensely hard that fi...
I made a very sensible decision to put every ounce of effort I had into my work, and it showed. Before I knew it, sophomore year was coming to an end and I was passing all of my classes with flying
I concluded my 8th grade year with 9 a's and 5 b's, contrarily my 9th grade report card included 5 f's and 3 d's. "Your mistakes do not define who you are, you are your possibilities." - Oprah Winfrey. This quote reflects my high school journey because though I've made innumerable mistakes throughout high school thus far, and continue to make mistakes by not prioritizing my education, I refuse to give up and I will not let my mistakes make me.
In middle school, I’d only talk to certain people, take certain classes, and participate in activities that I deemed “worthy.” All to reach an imaginary idea of perfection in my head. I thought that by closing myself in a rigid structure and following a strict path, I’d be happy and successful. But I was wrong. I looked back at what I was doing, and realized I wasn’t doing anything.
I found that I am more strong and competitive that I thought of be. I can make marked improvements in myself and not depend upon people’s expectations. I can fail as easily as I can defeat those who are continuous high achievers. I can make significant changes to my life and those around me for I am no longer scared of the failure that accompany with every student’s mind. This is a failure of grades which limits a student’s capacity to learn and to understand.
This accomplishment was not a walk in the park: there were obstacles and distractions every which way. I rearranged my nights from coming home and sleeping to coming home and frantically studying because there was an exam coming up. I had diminished my sleep but my outlook on life rose with my grades. That very year, I succeeded in gaining a 4.0 grade point
During my freshman year I didn’t know where I was going. I didn’t have any passion to do anything and I was letting that show through my grades. I then realized then that not having good grades wasn’t what I wanted, I wanted to go to college and prove to myself that I could do it. I worked harder and even though I struggled and had tough times I decided that I would put more effort into my work and not let anyone see me as someone I wasn’t.
We often think that our main goals are linked to perfection, however, we are unaware of the devastating effect this unattainable concept has on our outlook on life when we cannot achieve it. Though the textbook definition of perfection is, “the quality or condition of being perfect and without flaws”, it is a vice that harbors many doubts and insecurities and holds us back from things we want to do for fear of not being good. Perfection is a concept that cannot be achieved as it does not exist.