Mental Toughness

To me “mental toughness” is you pushing yourself to finish that last assignment even though you don’t feel like doing it after rewriting it for the seventeenth time that night. It’s the voice in the back of your mind that keeps you from getting up from your desk when you want nothing more than to be anywhere but there studying. If I didn't have mental toughness I wouldn't have made it to Texas Lutheran University. I’m dyslexic, so I need a lot of mental toughness to help me keep up with everyone else. For interstice this paper is going to make me twice as long to write in the correct way then it would take my roommate.  I have to have mental toughness to keep at it, so I can finish not only both posts but all of my other homework that I have. If it wasn't for mental toughness I think I would have thrown my computer out of the window multiple times in just this past night.

No, I don’t think that only athletes understand the importance of having strong mental toughness. Athletes are not the only people that have to have strong mental toughness, there are people that have never played a sport in their life. Those people have learned the importance in other ways, which has caused them to stay strong when they needed it the most.  I’m not saying that athletes don’t have great mental toughness, because they have to use their mental toughness when they are pushing their selves to the limit at a practice or during a game. Athletes and non-athletes both need high mental toughness for everything that they do. Everyone has different levels of mental toughness. Some people have very high mental toughness that helps them get though everything. And others have very low mental toughness that causes them to give up more quickly than the others. Mental toughness is something that can be learned to become stronger over time if you keep pushing yourself to keep going even when you think you can go no farther. But you will find that you will be a better person in the long run.