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There are a lot of times where I have exhibited resilience in my life and I’ll tell you about one time. resilience is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”. For example, back in the day I used to be terrible at basketball and had no drive to get better because I thought I had it made. Like, I was so bad I couldn’t even do the basics like shoot from mid range or dribble between my legs. I tried out for the high school basketball team and I was cut from said team because “I wasn’t ready” to play in a high school sport at the time.

At first I was very upset, but then I decided to take responsibility and realize that setbacks like this are a part of life and should grow from this experience so I decided not to give up and had a drive to practive more. So what I did was I went out and practiced every night in the cold until my shot was ice cold and more accurate and then I practiced more and more and then even more every single night. Next, I practiced day and night on my dribbling skills until they were to where they needed to be and then even more. I practiced at least 6 hours every day, even during the wintertime. I used to practice moves and then use them in in game situations at the park.

I had such a drive to get better that I had asked my friend to make me a workout that pertains to the skills I need to succeed with doing leg raises jumping and bench presses to name a few. That same workout today, I do 3 times or more every week and then after I take protein to recover. I had practiced so frequently until my vertical increased from barely touching the net to being able to touch the rim, easily. I trained all day everyday and changed every aspect of my life to basketball just to become better at it and make myself a more serious player because of my determination and love for the game. Eventually, my hard work and perserverance paid off to the point where I could dribble a ball through and behind my legs with my eyes closed easily.

Every part of my game became better in all aspects and I went from being exposed to exposing everyone else, all day every day. I even got so good at defense that I blocked someone near the basket not once, but 5 times in one game. I was so resilient in my task that I went from zero to great in about a year and a half simply because of of all the hard work and determination I had put into my goal. I then overcame my oppression and tried out again despite all of the setbacks. This time I did great and I had made the team and now I had earned everyone’s respect. I had worked very hard and had achieved my goal.

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