{"id":32557,"date":"2023-08-25T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-lessons-we-take-from-obstacles-we-encounter-can-be-fundamental-to-later-success-recount-a-time-when-you-faced-a-challenge-setback-or-failure-how-did-it-affect-you-and-what-did-you-learn-from\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:12:49","slug":"the-lessons-we-take-from-obstacles-we-encounter-can-be-fundamental-to-later-success-recount-a-time-when-you-faced-a-challenge-setback-or-failure-how-did-it-affect-you-and-what-did-you-learn-from","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-lessons-we-take-from-obstacles-we-encounter-can-be-fundamental-to-later-success-recount-a-time-when-you-faced-a-challenge-setback-or-failure-how-did-it-affect-you-and-what-did-you-learn-from\/","title":{"rendered":"The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week later, some of my friends from the team got together at the park to hang out. When I arrived, I was a little surprised that no one seemed to be mad at me \u2013 after all, I\u2019d lost us the game, and they had to be disappointed about not making it to the semifinals. It wasn\u2019t until we split into teams for an impromptu pickup game that I started to realize why no one was upset. Maybe it was the excitement of reaching the playoffs or the pressure of living up to my brothers\u2019 examples, but sometime during that game, I\u2019d lost sight of why most of us played summer league baseball. It wasn\u2019t to win the championship, as cool as that would have been. It was because we all loved to play. I didn\u2019t need a trophy or a Hollywood come-from-behind win to have fun playing baseball with my friends, but maybe I needed to strike out to remember that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week later, some of my friends from the team got together at the park to hang out. When I arrived, I was a little surprised that no one seemed to be mad at me \u2013 after all, I\u2019d lost us the game, and they had to be disappointed about not making it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1179],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/32557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=32557"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=32557"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=32557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}