Don't Try This At Home!

Watch Danny MacAskill's video, he has fallen... A LOT!  It was probably really frustrating and embarrassing at times, not to mention painful.  But if he had given up the first time he fell off his bike, he would never have been able to achieve these amazing things.


Life is like this.  You will almost certainly fail (repeatedly) before you succeed.  The key is to keep trying, to not give up, to learn from each mistake, to gain experience from each failure!

Most of us have witnessed a baby or toddler learning how to walk.  It can be pretty funny, but for the child it can be frustrating and they may feel like giving up.  Imagine where you would be today if you gave up every time something was hard!!  You have persevered and overcome more challenges than you realize.  Most of us have learned how to walk, talk, tie our shoes, ride a bike, (do long division?).  These things used to be hard, now they are easy.  If you give as much effort to your education as you did to learning how to walk, you will be successful!  It's going to be hard...it's supposed to be hard.  But if you refuse to give up, you will get where you want to be.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a great video and a great way to show that you shouldn't quit if you don't succeed the first time you try something.

Anonymous said...

I love this video ! This inspired me to try harder in life even though it gets hard you just keep on trying and trying.

Anonymous said...

"Sometimes you feel tired , feel week , and when you feel week , you feel like just giving up , but you got to search it in you , you have to find that inner strength and pull that sh*t out of you no matter what it takes you have to fall back And get that motivation and not give up and not be a quitter no matter what happened you have to keep trying " - Eminem (Till I collapse ) I recomend showing this song to the class in the very biggining it has this part of the song when he's talking about not quitting in life.

Ms. Hays said...

I appreciate the suggestion but I don't think I can get away with showing an Eminem video in class. He tends to spoil his positive messages with too much inappropriate language...