The Last Pick By David Mcgillivray - 1315 Words

With any amount of success, one must face adversity. In order to progress in life, one must experience both failure and success, this is inevitable. It is what one does with the failures which they have endured, that matters. By turning a defeat into a favorable outcome, one cannot only learn from their past, but also, can use those lessons to better themselves for the next time. David McGillivray has become a master of this art, turning what are seemingly failures into successes by changing his point of view and mindset. Within his book, The Last Pick, one can read about his multiple failures that later lead to his successes. McGillivray s height was a personal factor that he struggled with throughout most of younger stages of life.†¦show more content†¦As tryouts proceeded, McGillivray made it to the last round, and then was cut. The coach justified this cut by saying that if he was a few inches taller, he would be starting. This could have been a devastating failure to Mc Gillivray, and at first, it must have been. Although, he did not let it end his high school athletic career. From there, he joined the soccer team, where could utilize his speed and agility. Then, in addition to soccer, he simultaneously become a part of the cross country team as well. Through his dedication and hard work in both these sports, he developed into an excellent player for both teams. In his last year of his high school career, McGillivray was granted the highest award an athlete could have received. The Phelan Award was presented to him as a representation of his hard work and athletic excellence in his area. From a boy who got cut from his high school basketball team, to the young man who was awarded the most prestige trophy possible to receive as an athlete, he had made a complete 360. McGillivray once again took what is seemingly a failure, to one of the greatest accomplishments in his high school career. Lastly, the final failure to success story that McGillivray co vers within my reading was his first attempt to complete the Boston Marathon of 1972. On April 17, 1972 McGillivray decided to run the Boston Marathon on the whim. The morning of the Marathon Monday, he woke up, borrowed a bib from a fellow runner, laced up hisShow MoreRelatedThe Cause of Globalization18688 Words   |  75 Pagesexplains the rapid pace of international market integration in recent decades? The first perspective claims that what we are witnessing today is, in fact, nothing new because current levels of market integration are only now returning to those in the last great era of economic internationalization at the turn of the 20th century. This view has been accepted as a statement of fact in numerous influential studies (Katzenstein, Keohane, Krasner, 1998, p. 669; Krasner, 1999, pp. 220-223; Rodrik, 1997;