One personal challenge that I have faced is overcoming my fear of lead climbing. One of my many hobbies is rock climbing. When I got on the intermediate team “Dragons” I had to learn how to lead climb. Lead climbing is when a lead climber climbs while clipping into quickdraws every 5 feet. Quick draws are a type of protection for falling. Since the climber is only protected from falling about every 5 feet, falls can be as much as 15 feet. Like most people, free-falling 15 feet and hitting a wall, made me terrified, so I had to practice. The first time I lead, I took a practice fall, only a few feet above my quick draw. I fell about 5 feet and had my belayer lower me to the ground. When I got off I was shaking from fear. I did this a few more
Both Saturday Climbing and mirror image are stories of dealing with changes in life. In Saturday Climbing an overprotective father struggles to let her daughter make decisions for herself as she grows up and in Mirror Image a teenage girl with a recent brain transplant surgery struggles with sudden change in identity. The protagonists have different kinds of attitudes about change: in The two stories have similarities and differences between how the protagonists approach these differences.
Cross country runners spend weeks to months training for that one moment, the moment they will lean across the finish line. Crossing the finish line only lasts for only a split second, but the impact is significant. People often ask why, why spend so much time training for that one moment? Well for me it’s simple. The feeling I have when I cross that finish line is like no other I’ve ever had; it is a unique combination of pride, pain, relief, and an indescribable sense of accomplishment. After reading Into Thin Air, I realized how similar climbing a mountain actually is to running a race. Climbers, just like runners, spend months training for those few glorious minutes on top.
Harriet Jacobs, Frances E. W. Harper, and Anna Julia Cooper are three African American female writers who have greatly impacted the progress of "black womanhood." Through their works, they have successfully dispelled the myths created about black women. These myths include two major ideas, the first being that all African American women are perceived as more promiscuous than the average white woman. The second myth is that black women are virtually useless, containing only the capabilities of working in white homes and raising white children. These myths caused these women to be degraded in the eyes of others as well as themselves. In Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harper's Iola Leroy, and Cooper's A Voice From the South, womanhood is defined in ways that have destroyed these myths. As seen through these literary works, womanhood is defined according to one's sexuality, spirituality, beauty, identity, relationships, and motherhood.
Motivation, anxiety and the importance of group dynamic and roles are huge aspects to any success story, for people to succeed them need to realize that they cannot do it alone and it is always a journey. As portrayed in Into Thin Air, having anxiety to climb the largest Mountain in the world would be present for anyone who decides to take on that challenge, it is something we all go through and very normal in a lot of performance task. We need people to support us, and motivate, and these come in form of coaches and parents, we can’t just get to where we want to be on our own. A lot of things can get in our way of succeeding but if we continue to strive and do the best to our abilities then we have succeed.
...I jumped on the boulder and there I stood one jump away from gaining back my popularity. Looking at the cold ice had already given me shiver. I counted to three and jumped, I had broken the ice feet first. Beneath the ice was dark and extremely cold. I wasn’t able to see anything; I was frightened that I wouldn’t find my way back. It was an unusual feeling, like time had stopped and everything was moving slow. I ran out of breath and eventually found my way back. The whole school assumed that I had died from coldness and wouldn’t come back up. After warming up, it was the new kids turn to jump. Everyone waited but he couldn’t jump he choked. I was glad and proud of myself for overcoming my anxiety. The quote by Amit Ray really inspired me and will never be forgotten: “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
When one is limited to do so, he is putting himself out on the line to make him anxious or afraid. If he wanted to stand up and face his fears all he would have to do is embrace them. Eliminating one’s anxiety will allow one to embrace his obstacles. For instance, when Phil Hansen embraced his shake by making his artwork more different than usual. Also, when James Collier was anxious, embracing but he hesitated and then actually agreed to do the assignment. Hansen embracing his shake, Collier progressively gets better with anxiety, how I embraced a certain moment and overcome my anxiety to a certain point.
On December 3rd, 2008, 23-year-old Louisiana State University senior Brandy Lynn Fecke travelled with classmate Chad Culotta to the LSU Recreation Center to use the bouldering wall in order to complete a required assignment for an Outdoor Living Skills Activity course. After successfully traversing up the easier 13’ climbing wall, which did not require her to wear a harness, Fecke lost her footing on the way down, and fell, resulting in injuries to her foot and leg, and at least three surgeries. Prior to actually climbing the wall, both Fecke and Culotta paid to enter the facility, as well as executed a Rock Climbing Wall Participation Agreement, which was provided to her via LSU activity center employees. Additionally, Fecke was asked if she had previous experience with rock climbing walls, to which she answered yes, that she had been twice before, once when she was eight years old, and a second time when she was ten. Employees still reviewed safety precautions and warned Fecke of the dangers of the rock wall. With all of this in mind, Fecke still chose to climb the rock wall.
I am adventurous. No I don't sky dive, wrestle crocodiles, or swim with sharks, but when asked by a group of friends to go cliff diving last summer, my best response was, “Sounds like fun!” I had never been afraid of heights yet have never experienced the thrill of cliff diving. All I could ask myself was, “What could go wrong?”
Understanding and analyzing fear is a step to become fearless. Question until you understand something don’t go through life insecure. When you feel the sensation of fear you get scared and realize that you aren’t as brave as you thought, but you are capable of not being afraid anymore. Deconstructing fear is a way of gaining confidence. Once you become fearless life becomes limitless. Throughout life people are afraid of certain things not because they aren’t capable of doing it, but it is the fear that is the cause of their unwillingness. Results on fear are often held back by false assumptions of weakness. People live in fear, if you want to achieve success then don’t doubt yourself. Set fearlessness as an ideal as an ideal to dream about being fearless and the better you will be. Just because you try something for the first time and it doesn't come out as you expected doesn’t mean that it won't come out right the next time. Don’t give up and try until you succeed. In order to grow you have to challenge yourself. Confront your fears so that you aren’t scared
Lead is a lustrous, silvery metal that tarnishes in the presence of air and becomes a dull bluish gray. Soft and flexible, it has a low melting point (327 °C). Its chemical symbol, Pb, is from plumbum, the Latin word for waterworks, because of lead's extensive use in ancient water pipes. Itsatomic number is 82; its atomic weight is 207.19.
Another form, mental courage, means standing up and not yielding to phobias. While some fear speaking in front of a large audience, others fear heights. A teenager who puts down her fear of flying to visit an ailing, distant grandmother, and a freshman who conquers his fear of public speaking to run for a student council office both exhibit mental courage.
Fear comes in many forms, there is fear of embarrassment, failure, and injury. These are the three main fears that keep people from achieving their dreams. I say go for it, if you want to do something don’t let fear get in your way. Follow your dreams, make them come true. If you spend your life living in fear, you won’t accomplish anything, because to achieve your highest goals you must take risks. For example there are some ...
How many times in our life have we faced something that scared us or made us nervous? What did you do? Did you run away or did you face your fear and overcome it? From a young child that faces a challenge of going to sleep fighting the monsters under the bed to an aging adult fearing death, we all have something that we fear and make an internal decision to avoid or face it. Growing up I knew I always wanted to be a firefighter. I remember as a young child I would occasionally visit my uncle at his fire station, and from the second I walked in I was hit with the smell of soot coming from the yellow tinged bunker gear, or the massive size of the iconic fire truck! The best part was when he would allow me to step into the coveted captain’s seat of this massive truck.
I almost fell off a cliff on the side of a mountain. I was in Pitkin, Colorado, on a camping trip during the summer of 2009. The trees were green, the air was fresh so were the lakes, rivers, and ponds were stocked with fish and wildlife was everywhere. Usually, on these camping trips, I would be accompanied by a large number of people. However, this time, it was just my parents, my three brothers, and my two sisters. I was almost 12 years old at the time and having three older brothers made me very competitive. Naturally, when my family decided to climb one of the mountain’s which were around us, I wanted to be the first one to reach its peak.
The worst day of my life began innocently enough with my small group of friends preparing to explore a cave. Each month the four of us, I, Jill, John, and Ted, would choose two or three caves and spend our weekends engrossed in exploring them. Today’s cave was a special one; it afforded just a small window of opportunity for exploration because it flooded completely with each high tide. As we checked our packs and made sure all our spelunking and survival gear was in order, a rather jovial, but sizable, fellow by the name of Scott Porker happened by and asked if he could join our group. We agreed, as we were always happy to be in the company of a kindred spirit, and since the tide had just gone out we began our descent into the cave.