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Anas Elmala

Vanessa O’Connor

College Writing 1 - Section 60935

11 July 2022

Essay 1

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel threatened by your ability to perform

well in school or work? Did you know that there are seven habits that you can customize based

on your own learning needs to succeed? Such fear management strategies are the key to your

success in school or work in facing the challenges you meet along the way to achieving your

goals. They create the right mindset and environment to be intrinsically motivated, and able to

focus on overcoming the challenges you face. Success in school or work is achieved by

employing consistent habits to shift into a supportive mindset and environment, because The

Seven Laws of Consistent Success and other fear management strategies have proven to be

successful in overcoming challenges.

Applying The Seven Laws of Consistent Success consistently to maintain a champion

personality is key to achieving success in school or work. The Seven Laws of Consistent Success

are a set of habits used by people to shift into a supportive mindset and environment in school or

work. The laws outline methods to achieve intrinsic motivation and discover a suitable

environment to face challenges with positive thoughts that champion their ability to succeed in

overcoming challenges every time they fall into the trap of feelings that threaten their ability to

face them. When people are able to consistently apply these habits that can be customized based
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on each individual’s needs for success every time they face a challenge this allows them to

succeed by providing the effort necessary for success. In her article on Challenge Personality

Awareness Vanessa O’Connir says, “When practiced, these laws are designed to pull people out

of the proverbial rabbit hole of negative feelings and self-sabotage and into the higher vibration

of the Champion Persona each time they fall into the inevitable trap.” (5) The ability to shift out

of the saboteur or ambivalent personalities into championing yourself through these seven laws

and habits that are unique to your success is the key to facing challenges at school or work.

Applying other fear management strategies buillds on the cchampion personality to

ensure success in overcoming challenges at school or work. These include scaling back on career

commitments, and redefining success anmd failure to learn from your failures and come back

stronger to overcome challenges through a growth mindset. In her book, The College Fear Factor

Rebecca Cox speaks about students who chose to scale back on their career commitments saying,

“One such strategy consisted of scaling back. Several students had been admitted to nearby four

year colleges, but had chosen instead to start their careers in a less stressful environment, and . . .

who spoke of earning a certificate instead of an associate’s degree.” (33-34) Often times setting

goals that are easier tpo achieve helps people relieve the stress of overcoming challenges that set

the boundaries to their success at school or work. A growth mindset is a theory that describes

how some students operate in facing challenges. These students work hard at every task and view

every challenge as an opportunity to grow their knowledge. There are many proven benefits of

operating from a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset where students view failure as

something that reflects their fixed knowledge of a topic and cannot be alktered with learning. In

examining students with these mindsets in an experiment, Carol Dweck says in her article
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Bfrainology, “Students with different mindsets also had very different reactions to setbacks.

Those with growth mindsets reported that, after a setback in school, they would simply study

more or study differently the next time. But those with fixed mindsets were more likely to say

that they would feel dumb, study less the next time, and seriously consider cheating. If you feel

dumb — permanently dumb — in an academic area, there is no good way to bounce back and be

successful in the future.” (2). Re-modifying your goals or commitments and re-defining failure

can help you achieve success in school or work by making the path to achieving them less

stressful and learning from your mistakes to come back stronger providing the effort nedded for

success.

Challenges that lead to failure in school or work if not overcomed are heightened by

several anxiety factors that prevent people from giving their best effort. To begin with,

perfectionism and fear of not owing up to the full requirements after giving your best effort is a

key factor which prevents people from even trying to overcome challenges. In the College Fear

Factor, Rebecca Cox says, “Students admitted to feeling intimidated by professors’ academic

knowledge and by teachers’ power to assess students and assign grades. Essentially, students

were afrsaid that the professor would irrevocably confirm their academic inadequacy.” (26) In

adittion, past experiences of failure and the transition people make to more difficult levels of life

in education and work holding them responsible for more than they can handle are all factors

resulting in fear of failure as well. Essentially, when students allow themselves to fall into a

saboteur personality these factores are increased resulting in fear of failure, and avoiding

challenges yielding people unsuccessful in school or work.

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People’s success in school or work is dependant upon resilience in the face of challenges.

The key factors to this are creating an environment that is less stressful, and motivating your self

with goals to create a supportive mindset that you know can be achieved to overcome challenges

leading to your success in school or work. There are many factors that can sabotage you and

remove your ability to provide an effort for success, but the key is developing habits to be

uplifted from this state of anxiety into full action. Next time you fall into fear of failure, think

about what factors are preventing you from facing challenges at school or work and develop

habits to feel motivated intrinsically and by your environment.

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Works Cited Page

Cox, Rebecca. “Student Fear Factor.” The College Fear Factor, by Rebecca Cox, Cambridge,

Massachusetts and London, England, Harvard University Press, 15 Apr. 2011, pp. 21–45.

Dweck, Carol. “Brainology Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn.” National Association

of independent Schools, January 21, 2008.

https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/winter-2008/brainology/. Accessed

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O’Connor, Vanessa. “Challenge Personality AwarenessTM - A Case Study Explanation How to

Overcome Challenges, Achieve Goals, and have Success in School and Life.” Levantay

Enterprise, 2019. https://levantay.com/. Accessed 11 July 2022