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    George Li argues that the two most important character traits for success in school are initiative and perseverance. Initiative means taking responsibility for your own learning by seeking out information independently. For example, George takes initiative to learn more outside of class time, which helps him understand lessons. Perseverance, or not giving up despite challenges, is also crucial. George shares an experience where persevering with a robotics project led to a sense of accomplishment and a second place award, despite initial frustrations. He concludes that initiative in setting goals combined with perseverance in pursuing them will help students achieve success.

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    George Li argues that the two most important character traits for success in school are initiative and perseverance. Initiative means taking responsibility for your own learning by seeking out information independently. For example, George takes initiative to learn more outside of class time, which helps him understand lessons. Perseverance, or not giving up despite challenges, is also crucial. George shares an experience where persevering with a robotics project led to a sense of accomplishment and a second place award, despite initial frustrations. He concludes that initiative in setting goals combined with perseverance in pursuing them will help students achieve success.

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    George Li argues that the two most important character traits for success in school are initiative and perseverance. Initiative means taking responsibility for your own learning by seeking out information independently. For example, George takes initiative to learn more outside of class time, which helps him understand lessons. Perseverance, or not giving up despite challenges, is also crucial. George shares an experience where persevering with a robotics project led to a sense of accomplishment and a second place award, despite initial frustrations. He concludes that initiative in setting goals combined with perseverance in pursuing them will help students achieve success.

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    George Li argues that the two most important character traits for success in school are initiative and perseverance. Initiative means taking responsibility for your own learning by seeking out information independently. For example, George takes initiative to learn more outside of class time, which helps him understand lessons. Perseverance, or not giving up despite challenges, is also crucial. George shares an experience where persevering with a robotics project led to a sense of accomplishment and a second place award, despite initial frustrations. He concludes that initiative in setting goals combined with perseverance in pursuing them will help students achieve success.

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    George Li, Bloordale Middle School

    Essay Topic: What 2 character traits do you feel are the most necessary to
    be successful in school? Please justify your choices with examples.

    Why do some students excel in school and others don’t? Is it because


    some students are smart and others aren’t? I believe that the two most
    important character traits needed to be successful in school are initiative
    and perseverance. These two traits will not only help you get good grades
    but also the learning skills you need to succeed.

    Initiative is the first step to success. Initiative means that you do things on
    your own without someone forcing you to do it. For example, my grade
    seven core teacher was very impressed that I have a lot of prior
    knowledge. I think that the main reason for this is that I take initiative to
    understand what I learn in class and strive to learn more. When I don’t
    understand something, I am always curious to find the answer. I learn
    many things by reading books, researching on the Internet, and listening to
    the news on the radio. All of the information I get outside of school hours
    helps me during class to understand concepts more easily.

    Initiative by itself is not enough. Perseverance, meaning that you will keep
    on trying, is also needed so that you don’t give up despite having
    problems. I once was in charge of programming of the robot in the school
    FLL Lego Team. It was a very exciting job at first, but started to become
    frustrating as I started to program the harder missions. Sometimes the
    robot would go all over the playing field although it wasn’t supposed to do
    that, and sometimes it would get stuck and break. But instead of just giving
    up, I was determined to finish all the tasks, and came back from the
    competition with the 2nd Place Robot Design Award. This gave me a sense
    of accomplishment. Most of the time success doesn’t come easily, but as
    long as you persevere, you will be awarded.

    Initiative is you setting a goal for yourself, and perseverance is you trying
    as hard as you can to reach it. With these two character traits, you will be
    able to achieve success in school.

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