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Knowing my limits

Of the many things important to me, knowing my limits is the highest. In my earlier years of high school, classes did not feel very intensive, and as such I did not put in much effort in my work as I felt that I was doing enough. Over time, my grades slowly dipped as classes began to increase in difficulty. At first I was content with this as I thought that I was working as well as I could. This all changed after going through multiple poor tests in my online math class last year. I concluded that I was not pushing myself to the limit and pledged to improve. I began to put more time into understanding and reviewing content even if I thought it was redundant to spend time on it. This resulted in a comeback of over 10%, but at this stage my final grade no longer satisfied me as it had been affected by my lack of effort earlier in the course. I knew I could have done so much better had I pushed myself to the limit, and so I promised not to make the same mistake. Later in the summer, I retook my physics course and managed to score 100%, working to the best of my ability. I now find that many times an individual can have potential to reach much further than they are, but never quite get to their limits because it is easy to settle down and think that the effort being put in now is enough. Sometimes it is, however it is those who push themselves to the very limits of their abilities that achieve the greatest things.

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