Don't Eat This Blog Post!

At first when I looked the title's of the two articles, "Resistance Training For Your 'Willpower' Muscles?" and the, "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?" I didn't see what was the connection was. It wasn't until I read the articles more carefully and more attentively that I was able to realize what the connection and why we had to read them. The articles relate to college and life themselves. 
They talk about delayed gratification like the "marshmallow" video. If you put the work in now then the reward will eventually come to you in many ways. Also failure is another example of this; you learn more from your failures and mistakes than your successes. Sometimes failure creates determination to succeed. 
I know this from a personal experience. I kept on failing my Army physical fitness test and only the two-mile run. Sometimes the graders added a minute to the run time if they thought that the clock was off. I ran everyday on the treadmill in the downstairs gym inside the barracks and I did the exercise bicycle. I pushed trough the grueling physical pain so I could go home to my family. In the end I passed with a minute to pass. Even when I went through basic I was the "weak" link. Out of shape, short and an easy target. I was bound and determined to prove everyone wrong that I was in it to win it. 
Before I get completely off topic the point for us to read the articles is to see that even though doing about six hours of homework per class is pure torture it really isn't; everything is for our benefit in the long run. We get that instant gratification now when we complete something but then we get the delayed gratification when we get our grade or even our diploma. I am trying to rush to get mine even though I'm the first one to tell everyone that life's a journey not a race. In my future I'll be fighting for freedom with a degree with art education. I'll be able to connect with people who I don't even speak the same language as just by know that I will the skills to think in depth.        

My first day at Basic

My last day at basic