Example Of Resilience Essay

The beaming rays of sunlight bouncing off my skin, making it unbearable. The sweat dripping from my forehead, falling to the floor and instantly absorbing into the cracked, dry ground. This desert is sucking me dry. That is the reality of school. From sunup to sundown students from the early age of five years old start attending school, year after year. School systems have incorporated different types of learning styles such as chunking information, which is meant to make learning an easier process. However, learning is not an easy process. You can try to cut the corners to make it seem easier, but it isn’t. In the United States, we have this mindset of individuality, everyone for themselves. We are in a society that promotes the concept of “survival of the fittest”. School systems today are promoting the concept

Although full gear grit helps motivate an individual to keep going, grit will not take you everywhere you want to in life because there are real-life barriers, that you cannot control. For example, an individual who experiences financial problems from home, may not be able to control it and may not get to experience college or forms of success that cost money. This all comes down to the popular misconception made about gritty students and success. In the article “Resilience is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure”, parents of a two-year-old, Shawn Achor (2016) and Michelle Gielan (2016), contradict Duckworth’s (2016) claim, by asserting that, “The lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.” The grit concept is all about moving forward and continuously pushing but as Achor (2016) and Gielan (2016) say there is not a recovery period. A recovery period or break is not just a 30 minute in between the day, but a period in which we stop stressing and thinking about the things we have to do during school. This hiatus away from the