Reflection

 Persisting

Persisting is an important element to succeed. If successful people didn't persist, they wouldn't have been successful. Persistence should always be practiced when you feel like your going to fail.  I practice persistence when I feel like I'm not doing well, and feel like I'm going to fail.For example, when I applied to jobs; many of the jobs I applied for never called back, and I was losing hope. For a few days I lost hope and didn't persist, but then I started to apply again, and I finally got a job. If I didn't persist and tried again I would've still been broke, and unemployed. By trying again even after you fail you prove others wrong and the doubts you had about yourself disappear. If it didn't work the first time; change the way you did it, and try again.

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

When you truly learn something, you are able to apply it to most of the things in life. For example, I can apply what I learned in Biology to Chemistry, Math, and even English. Being able to relate different subjects to another subject can help you understand it better. Another example can be if an English book like "Brave New World" talks about different biology elements, your apply to apply what you've learned and understand it better.

Striving for Accuracy

They say "Be the best you can be", but they never said what "best" is. What defines "best"? To strive for accuracy, doesn't mean to be perfect, it means to be your best, and not someone else's best. If you are able to better yourself throughout time then you have become better then how you were, and that's a reward in itself. I could've used this in one of my essay's, to change some grammar mistakes.  Nobody's perfect, and if we strive for perfection, we will never achieve satisfaction and happiness.