ADVERSITY
Tristan Harris
Period 4
ADVERSITY
Adversity – also known as hardship – has an effect on the person going through it. It is only through adversity that one can reach out and make choices based on their own experiences and selftaught lessons. A United States Marine Corps slogan states “improvise, adapt, overcome”. This popular saying represents the drive to accomplish the mission, and how usually
US Marines have to work with less than what is required. It is through this type of will and determination that makes the United States a world superpower – that even makes man keep pushing for what they want or even may need. Adversity establishes a rule of thumb: get over an obstacle to get to the next, and use what you’ve learned from the previous to assist you in the oncoming. The lessons, skills, and even traits achieved through hardship of some sort add value to adversity. It is common to notice how countless worldwide idols and celebrities, successful and famous alike, have started from “the bottom”, per say, and have worked their way to the point in their lives where they stand. They’ve adapted to their situations and elicited talents
(some of which may not have ever been found if not for adversity) that put them where they are now. I agree with Horace, that adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Richard Rhodes, a biographer of the bird artist John James Audubon, included in his writing: “Drawing birds had been something of an obsession, but only a hobby, until Audubon's businesses failed in the Panic of 1819." Audubon, an extremely successful Kentucky merchant th in the 17 century, was truly living what is known to many as the “American Dream”. That was, until a terrible economic collapse took place in the United States, leaving Audubon nearly bankrupt overnight. With a sense of having nothing left to lose, he turned to his pastime for income, making it a
Period 4
ADVERSITY
Adversity – also known as hardship – has an effect on the person going through it. It is only through adversity that one can reach out and make choices based on their own experiences and selftaught lessons. A United States Marine Corps slogan states “improvise, adapt, overcome”. This popular saying represents the drive to accomplish the mission, and how usually
US Marines have to work with less than what is required. It is through this type of will and determination that makes the United States a world superpower – that even makes man keep pushing for what they want or even may need. Adversity establishes a rule of thumb: get over an obstacle to get to the next, and use what you’ve learned from the previous to assist you in the oncoming. The lessons, skills, and even traits achieved through hardship of some sort add value to adversity. It is common to notice how countless worldwide idols and celebrities, successful and famous alike, have started from “the bottom”, per say, and have worked their way to the point in their lives where they stand. They’ve adapted to their situations and elicited talents
(some of which may not have ever been found if not for adversity) that put them where they are now. I agree with Horace, that adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Richard Rhodes, a biographer of the bird artist John James Audubon, included in his writing: “Drawing birds had been something of an obsession, but only a hobby, until Audubon's businesses failed in the Panic of 1819." Audubon, an extremely successful Kentucky merchant th in the 17 century, was truly living what is known to many as the “American Dream”. That was, until a terrible economic collapse took place in the United States, leaving Audubon nearly bankrupt overnight. With a sense of having nothing left to lose, he turned to his pastime for income, making it a