<p>Quote:</p>
<p>When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. YOu have the choice. YOu can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you, and be a loser. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.</p>
<p>Assignment: What is your view of the idea that every obstacle can be turned into an opportunity?</p>
<p>my essay:</p>
<pre><code>Many people go through obstacles each day. The key question is what he does with that obstacles. As Mary Ash said, a person can overcome the obstacle or let it overcome him. Just like any other human beings, I face obstacles every day, but I always keep a mindset to thrive to become better. I remember myself recording every errors I made in baseball team last year. I always kept a mindset of learning from my mistakes. My second experience is my English language barrier. It always had and always has given me hard time understand the language, but I did not let it overcome me. I fought and still fighting thorugh my natural obstacles, and I made sure that I learned my lesson from each problems. Each obstacles give me a chance to strive to become a better, more established person.
I remember an old poster hanging in my chemistry class last year. It said, "An error doesn't become a mistake until you learn from it." I put that into practice when I recorded all of my errors in the baseball team. After every game, I sat in a dugout writing all the fielding and batting errors I made. Sometimes, they were significant, sometimes they weren't. But I made sure of one thing: Never make the same mistake twice. At the end of that year, I received the Most Improved Player of the Year.
My primary obstacles, however, is my language barrier. I came to America about five years ago, still learning the language. I could not communicate with others and was stuck in the program of ESOL, so I really did not have chance to talk to real Americans even if I had spoken the language well. However, I have come a long way, now finishing off my last year in high school with GPA over 4.0. Whenever I was distraught about my inability to speak the language fluently, I only looked to strive further and not settling anything lower than my potential.
Every obstacles give each people a lesson regardless of its significance. It's just up to each individual what he does with it and how he takes it. In conclusion, every obstacles give a potential lesson to strive to be better than who we are now.
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<p>Thank you in advance</p>