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Essay On My Life Experience

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An intellectual man knows when to learn from one’s mistake. An intellectual man will not repeat the same mistake twice. Those are the lesson I have discovered throughout my years of school and life experiences. All of the lessons and experiences that I had, will help differentiate me from the other student on the campus by not making mistakes that I had done before. The lectures that had been given to me are to help me get ready to reach this point, getting into college. The revealing of college has led me to think and perceive the bigger picture of success and independence; how everything I have done was to prepare me for college, such as joining the soccer team and the club organization called DECA. Throughout the two activities that I am currently involves in, I have learned that communicating, staying …show more content…

I understood the basic concept of communication because of the conference, but after I interpret it in soccer, I realized how important communication is. Soccer is a team effort sport. Everyone depend on one another to be able to succeed as one. Everyone has to talk and communicate with one another, if a player is trapped, one player have to come help, another has to open up, and all of those concepts are essential to get out of a tight spot. A great example would be the game when we were down 2-0 in the first half, it seems over, but we won’t give up. Our team bounced back and scored a goal; a few minutes later, we scored a tying free-kick goal with a couple minutes left on the clock. After the goal, the team started communicating like crazy, players calling plays and directing one another from left and right. The result was a game winning free-kick goal that brought the Division Championship to McClintock High. Communication is a big part of everyday basis, and I feel like I have understood it better because of the experience I had by learning it from the conference and using it in the competition and in

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