Jeremy Lin is someone who inspires me and his story of becoming a NBA basketball player has always been my motivation. I learned a new English world “perseverance” when I watch Jeremy giving a speech the other day on the computer. He was talking about the most important thing that makes him success as a basketball player is his quality of hardworking and never giving up. This quality is basically the meaning of perseverance.
Growing up, my dad always likes to share with me his experience of becoming successful in his career. He told me that the key of the success is to continue working hard and don’t give up. He told me the importance of perseverance and how I can set up little goals to accomplish it.
I can relate perseverance to many things in my life such as exercise. I remember there was a period of time I swim every day for 2 hours and I got a really healthy body and it made me strong and muscular. For some reason, I stop doing the exercise every day and I feel I am not as strong and healthy as before. I realize that how lazy I am sometimes and I really need to kill those lazy bugs in my mind. Right now I start to back on the track of my good habits of exercising every day and I keep in mind that perseverance is the key.
Other than exercise, perseverance can also reflect on my study. Learning a new language has always been a difficult thing for me. I realize that there are so many little things I can do every day to improve my skills. I can write down 10 new words I learned from school and remember it every night before sleep. I can also read an English book that is interesting for me for an hour every day. As time pass, I believe I can improve a lot but I have to keep in mind that perseverance is the key.
I learned that perseverance is so important that can lead me to success. Maybe I am not as talent compare to other people. But from Jeremy, I knew that hard work will always pay off and I cannot give up. So from now on, no matter what I do in my life I will keep in mind that perseverance is the key can bring me to success.