When tackling weaknesses, the drive to improve kicks in and helps to learn. Weaknesses are goals and help to build a proper mindset. Overcoming these weaknesses creates a killer mentality that has helped people excel and jumpstart their careers.
What happens when something you have done all of your life isn’t what you love anymore?
All of us as teenagers put the weight of the world on our shoulders and expect nothing but perfection as an outcome. Whether that be in our social, academic, or professional lives, we tend to overanalyze every little detail and make ourselves unnecessarily anxious.
Being a teen is never easy. We have so much to deal with and so few people to talk to. We can feel hopeless at times and even feel like giving up. But trying new things can be undoubtedly daunting.
Summer vacation gives us the opportunity to unwind and refresh ourselves in preparation for the coming academic year. Have you given any thought to making your summer more productive so that you don’t waste your time lazing around all day and feeling rather aimless?
Think back to your childhood for a minute. How often was it something where you couldn’t argue with your parents about, they simply demanded, and you delivered or responded and that was that?
Sport is good, healthy, and a catalyst for human connection, social participation, identity construction and an opportunity to move up the social ladder – at least for some.
With your back against the wall shouldn’t you look for the most interesting and strategically impressive way out? Using alternative sports in this undermanning way is that tool. Use it.