Personal Insight Research Paper
Hafid Villa
Mrs.Peterson
E.R.W.C / 4
29 September, 2016
Personal Insight As a freshman, high school had been not much of an interest for me. The struggle had been inevitable that year. In regard of trying to keep up with my grades it seemed impossible . Overall, it was a difficult challenge for me to face. Adding fuel to the fire, me being a new student in a new school, at a new city, with new people. The environment at home wasn't really helpful either. The existence of my own room for personal space had been nonexistent. Commotion in the household was extremely common at the time. All these personal problems and a fixed mindset led to my lack of ability to perform well in school. Fortunately, thanks to all these problems …show more content…
Fitting into an unfamiliar place was quite the task. Due to the feeling of being out of place I started to socialize with the wrong crowd. Suddenly my mentality started changing rapidly, the more I spent time with those people the more I had become like them while attaining their fixed mindset. Than it came to me that I couldn't accomplish anything, I wasn't good at any subject in school. All of my grades started plummeting completely I had such terrible grades my first semester. My mother scolded me tremendously due to this. Than all of a sudden it hit me, I realized that I wasn't around the right kind of people. My views on my academic ability, had to change I need to start believing I had the potential to do good. Sadly, it didn't work out as great as I would've liked that semester, I failed to accomplish …show more content…
Success cannot always just come instantly, but instead it's a process of learning from failures in order to achieve your success and potential in life. There's never an excuse for anything that you can't accomplish. Challenges in life,having hard times, putting you down shouldn't make you quit on yourself, instead empower yourself to do better. The mentality you hold, is a key tool for your success, you will never get anywhere in life by having a fixed mindset. You may be facing tough moments but you need to remember and realize that others have gone through worse and have been a major success. These are some of the life lessons I learned through the tough times and failures and I will be sure to keep them in mind whenever I'm faced with an obstacle that I have to go
Mrs.Peterson
E.R.W.C / 4
29 September, 2016
Personal Insight As a freshman, high school had been not much of an interest for me. The struggle had been inevitable that year. In regard of trying to keep up with my grades it seemed impossible . Overall, it was a difficult challenge for me to face. Adding fuel to the fire, me being a new student in a new school, at a new city, with new people. The environment at home wasn't really helpful either. The existence of my own room for personal space had been nonexistent. Commotion in the household was extremely common at the time. All these personal problems and a fixed mindset led to my lack of ability to perform well in school. Fortunately, thanks to all these problems …show more content…
Fitting into an unfamiliar place was quite the task. Due to the feeling of being out of place I started to socialize with the wrong crowd. Suddenly my mentality started changing rapidly, the more I spent time with those people the more I had become like them while attaining their fixed mindset. Than it came to me that I couldn't accomplish anything, I wasn't good at any subject in school. All of my grades started plummeting completely I had such terrible grades my first semester. My mother scolded me tremendously due to this. Than all of a sudden it hit me, I realized that I wasn't around the right kind of people. My views on my academic ability, had to change I need to start believing I had the potential to do good. Sadly, it didn't work out as great as I would've liked that semester, I failed to accomplish …show more content…
Success cannot always just come instantly, but instead it's a process of learning from failures in order to achieve your success and potential in life. There's never an excuse for anything that you can't accomplish. Challenges in life,having hard times, putting you down shouldn't make you quit on yourself, instead empower yourself to do better. The mentality you hold, is a key tool for your success, you will never get anywhere in life by having a fixed mindset. You may be facing tough moments but you need to remember and realize that others have gone through worse and have been a major success. These are some of the life lessons I learned through the tough times and failures and I will be sure to keep them in mind whenever I'm faced with an obstacle that I have to go