Positively Persistent

Tristan Lacle
English 101
Persistence through failure
Failure is a part of every person’s life. Failure can also be seen in numerous amounts of ways, such as positively or negatively. When we do fail, we have options to consider. For example, if I shot a basketball and miss, I could either pick the ball back up or give it another go, or just say “I cannot do it” and walk away. Often we make the mistake of giving up, due to stress, a lack of self-confidence, or even just because we are sick of failing. As we grow up we discover that the more we are persistent, it (usually) impacts us positively more than negatively to be persistent.
Persistence is often thought of when you think of someone who kept failing, but kept trying even if they still could not succeed. Whenever we attempt a new goal, or try to overcome a certain challenge we are required to use persistency. But where does the persistence come from? Is it taught? Learned? I believe that it grows over time. An article states “What I think is important on the road to success is learning to deal with failure, to manage adversity. That’s a skill that parents can certainly help their children develop—but so can teachers and coaches and mentors and neighbors and lots of other people.”(Taugh). Failure is often the drive of persistence, when I first started riding my bike every time I failed, every time my knees scraped the pavement It gave me all the more incentive to get back up and pedaling. Although something that almost sparks inside of you, persistence is still highly affected by your environment. I believe when Rose states parents can help their children developed persistency, I recall back to my father telling me to get back up and give it another go. Teachers also affect this as well, for example when you are playing an instrument and just cannot seem to get one part down. I know my old trumpet teacher would sit me down and make me play it over and over until “Here comes Santa Clause” played repeatedly in my dreams.
On the other hand, persistency can also a lack of self esteem. Say a kid wants to shoot a basket, but he/she simply is not strong enough to make it. No matter how many attempts taken, they may never get it. This is an example of how it may affect someone negatively, when there can only be one outcome. When I played video games with my older brother, I would almost never win. Although I would keep trying harder and harder, depending on ones background they might give up instead, saying they could never win and that it is pointless.

Memoir Final

Tristan Laclé
English 101
Persistence is key. Every goal we make, every challenge we stand up to, persistence is the main attribute in everyday life. Experiences in life force you to become persistent, for example a career. When I was growing up, my parents and grandparents constantly reminded me and drilled the concept of never giving up through my skull and into my brain. Every day we are in some way required to be persistent, at work, school, even in our home life. Persistency is important to everyone, without being persistent life can become sluggish, and accomplishing tasks becomes difficult because we give up too fast, before we use all of our potential. For me, that persistence stemmed from a simple task we all once went through, and that was riding my bicycle
This brings me back to the beginning of it all, the tricycle. Before I could handle balancing two wheels, I had to take it in steps and begin with three. The tricycle taught me the basics; how to pedal, steer, sit. Soon enough I was riding around little red preschool, zipping by other children and hearing the wind scream back in my face. Shortly after learning the tricycle, I came home one sunny evening to my father putting training wheels on what was my brand new Huffy. I was ecstatic to see this, as my older brother had been able to ride a mountain bike for years. Off I went my next step in learning how to ride, stumbling and falling down, occasionally balancing for a substantial amount of time. Finally, I thought. Now is my time, to take the training wheels off and accomplish this with no help once and for all. The first few times were rough, I would consistently lean to one side or the other, and soon become agitated. But as I once started with the tricycle, I had to keep trying, I wanted to know what is was like to fly down the streets on two wheels, leaning left and right to overcome the sharp corners. Then, like nothing, I was riding. I was riding with no hesitation, no lack of confidence, and no fear.
Now I could ride a bike. I could switch the gears and hear the satisfying click as the gears changed. But I still lacked something, I was still curious, was there more? That’s when I tried what I thought was dangerous; riding with one hand. Woohoo! I screamed inside my head as I finally accomplished riding with one hand, I thought I was amazing. Not long after though, I was riding down the streets with no hands. Little did I know what I had been preparing for down the line.
Following a few years after this is when it really began. I became intensely involved in BMX, I wanted to learn how to flatland (spinning, rolling, parking lot tricks). Time machines, Hitchhikers, smoothies, stick b-s, they all sparked my curiosity. But as I did with once learning to ride a bike, I was concentrating on taking on these goals in steps. The wheelie was the first trick I learned, and boy did I love learning it. I received my first bmx bike for free by a friend, and every wheelie I did after that I did longer and longer, faster and faster, I had it mastered. Not long after I started trying more challenging tricks, such as the backwards hitchhiker (involves learning at least three other tricks to do). The whole process of learning just one trick in flatland can take years, as the hitchhiker took about a year. Had I not been persistent, my goals could never be accomplished.
As to where I am today, I now own a custom made flatland bike that cost a little over $2000 to put together. Some of the above named tricks, ive accomplished, and there many more to come following. There are numerous moments in life, were if you consider your circumstance, you may just be on the first step of many. This is why I have chosen to never give, to never falter and if you do, consider another way, another option to make whatever it is you dream to do come true.

Persistence Animoto

Memoir Draft

Tristan Laclé

English 101

Persistence is key. Every goal we make, every challenge we stand up to, persistence is the main attribute in everyday life. Experiences in life force you to become persistent, for example a career. When I was growing up, my parents and grandparents constantly reminded me and drilled the concept of never giving up through my skull and into my brain. Everyday we are in some way required to be persistent, at work, school, even in our home life. Part of this persistency requires another adverb; creativity. Some obstacles in life will force us to become significantly creative to overcome them. For me and for many others, this creativity was inspired by curiosity. By being curious, it allows us to concept together ideas and ways to achieve our goals, and one common goal we all shared (hopefully), was riding a bicycle.

This brings me back to the beginning of it all, the tricycle. Before I could handle balancing two wheels, I had to take it in steps and begin with three. The tricycle taught me the basics; how to pedal, steer, sit. Soon enough I was riding around little red preschool, zipping by other children and hearing the wind scream back in my face. Shortly after learning the tricycle, I came home one sunny evening to my father putting training wheels on what was my brand new Huffy. I was ecstatic to see this, as my older brother had been able to ride a mountain bike for years. Off I went my next step in learning how to ride, stumbling and falling down, occasionally balancing for a substantial amount of time. Finally, I thought. Now is my time, to take the training wheels off and accomplish this with no help once and for all. The first few times were rough, I would consistently lean to one side or the other, and soon become agitated. But as I once started with the tricycle, I had to keep trying, I wanted to know what is was like to fly down the streets on two wheels, leaning left and right to overcome the sharp corners. Then, like nothing, I was riding. I was riding with no hesitation, no lack of confidence, and no fear.

Now I could ride a bike. I could switch the gears and hear the satisfying click as the gears changed. But I still lacked something, I was still curious, was there more? That’s when I tried what I thought was dangerous; riding with one hand. Woohoo! I screamed inside my head as I finally accomplished riding with one hand, I thought I was amazing. Not long after though, I was riding down the streets with no hands. Little did I know what I had been preparing for down the line.

Following a few years after this is when it really began. I became intensely involved in BMX, I wanted to learn how to flatland (spinning, rolling, parking lot tricks). Time machine’s, Hitchikers, smoothies, stick b-s, they all sparked my curiosity. But as I did with once learning to ride a bike, I was concentrating on taking on these goals in steps. The wheelie was the first trick I learned, and boy did I love learning it. I received my first bmx bike for free by a friend, and every wheelie I did after that I did longer and longer, faster and faster, I had it mastered.

As to where I am today, I now own a custom made flatland bike that cost a little over $2000 to put together. Some of the above named tricks, ive accomplished, and there many more to come following. There are many moments in life, were if you consider your circumstance, you may just be on the first step of many. This is why I have chosen to never give, to never falter and if you do, consider another way, another option to make whatever it is you dream to do come true.

Brainstorming Experiences

when it comes to children, they have more curiosity than someone of an older age. Back when I was younger, I would simply just touch everything to feel their texture, try to figure out what they are. When I was a child I was also extremely creative as well. I would spend time playing with a Military collection I had. I would imitate the drastic war noises.When it comes down to persistence. That’s something I had a knack for. When I start fixing something, I will perspire until I’m finished. For example one time I swapped the reading eye in my Xbox. This in no way was simple, It took me from about 9 till 3 in the morning.

Autobiography

writing and reading are of the most importance in present society. Growing up, I was excessively interested in reading. once I entered the 6th grade my creativity in writing grew. Although writing is not my favorite, I still enjoyed bringing new stories out of my thoughts and on to paper. When you think about writing, you really dig deep inside your head to come up various details, as well as a more intricate vocabulary. My writing now has grown significantly stronger as my basic knowledge has grown. When it comes down to writing, I prefer to use a computer . The computer makes typing rapidly faster, while spell check fixes any mistakes you may make. The most memorable piece of writing I did was when in fifth grade, I wrote a creative assignment about leopards turning into trees at night with spots. My favorite utensil to use is a pen, preferably a pilot g2 in black. This semester I hope to become more organized in writing and increase my vocabulary even wider. When writing, I promote having another person check over you work and see things that maybe you did not see, or even you did not believe were incorrect!