Don't compare yourself to someone else's achievements, but instead start something and keep at it and everything will work out. Learn how perseverance could equal success! 

Skills

Watch a TED Talk about perseverance. 

Watch as writer Andrew Solomon gives a powerful call to action to forge meaning from our biggest struggles. What struggles have you faced? How can you learn from them?

Career

Learn how to overcome adversity.

Surfing, rock climbing, lacrosse, fencing, juggling? Pinpoint something you've always been intrigued by and then find a tutorial, class, or club where you can try it out!

Advice

Start a sport or activity you've always wanted to try!

Athletes

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Second Interest High-Point

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

First Interest High-Point

Third Interest High-Point

Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Athletes and Sports Competitors

Athletes, Coaches, Umpires, and Related Workers

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Attend scheduled practice or training sessions.

Participate in athletic events or competitive sports, according to established rules and regulations.

Exercise or practice under the direction of athletic trainers or professional coaches to develop skills, improve physical condition, or prepare for competitions.

Maintain equipment used in a particular sport.

Maintain optimum physical fitness levels by training regularly, following nutrition plans, or consulting with health professionals.

Assess performance following athletic competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses and making adjustments to improve future performance.

Represent teams or professional sports clubs, performing such activities as meeting with members of the media, making speeches, or participating in charity events.

Receive instructions from coaches or other sports staff prior to events and discuss performance afterwards.

Badminton rackets

Balance beams

Baseball catching gloves

Bicycle motocross BMX bikes

Bowling balls

Boxing gloves

Competition javelins

Competition sailboats

Competition shot puts

Competition skateboards

Competition snowboards

Competition surfboards

Competition water skis

Core strengthening wheels

Cross-country skis

Cyclical variations in adaptive conditioning CVAC pods

Digital video cameras

Diving platforms

Downhill skis

Dressage whips

Elliptical trainers

Exercise bicycles

Fencing foils

Figure skates

Fitness balls

Fitness dumbbells

Fitness treadmills

Football training dummies

Football training sleds

Glute-ham benches

Golf drivers

Golf putters

Golf wedges

Gymnastics grips

Gymnastics rings

Gymnastics trampolines

Gymnastics vaults

Hammer throws

Horse bridles

Horse reins

Ice hockey skates

Ice hockey sticks

In-line skates

Lacrosse sticks

Laptop computers

Lower body weight machines

Metal baseball bats

Motion analysis equipment

Mountain bikes

Parallel bars

Personal computers

Ping-pong paddles

Pommel horses

Pool cues

Portable archery targets

Power stairclimbers

Precision archery bows

Race starting blocks

Recumbent exercise bicycles

Regulation basketballs

Regulation field hockey sticks

Regulation footballs

Regulation soccer balls

Regulation volleyballs

Relay race batons

Riding crops

Riding saddles

Road bikes

Row machines

Sculling boats

Softball bats

Speed skates

Spring diving boards

Squat benches

Squat racks

Stability balls

Sweep-oar boats

Swimming goggles

Tablet computers

Target shooting arrows

Tennis rackets

Therapeutic exercise bands

Therapeutic sandbags

Throwing discus

Track and field hurdles

Tractor tires

Uneven bars

Upper body ergometers

Vaulting poles

Vaulting springboards

Weighlifting analysis equipment

Weight plates

Weighted vests

Wooden baseball bats

Email software

Facebook

Motion analysis software

Twitter

Web browser software

YouTube

I was born a quadruple amputee, but if I could go back and change the way I was born, I wouldn't - my disability has actually enabled me to make a huge impact.

MMA Fighter/Wrestler/Owner

<div>Aaron, Liz, and Autumn settle into life on the Road, enjoying each other and the cities that they visit. Driving on to Georgia, they interview Kyle Maynard, a young man born with congenital amputation, who became a college award-winning wrestler and an entrepreneur. From there, the team heads into Tennessee to speak</div>
<div>with Dr. Bill Bass, forensic anthropologist, which is a significant moment for Liz. In Cleveland, they visit with Van Taylor Monroe, sneaker artist, whose custom-painted Obama sneakers were donated to the Smithsonian Museum. </div>

Kyle Maynard

MMA Fighter/Wrestler/Owner

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Kyle Maynard

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Learning / Being Challenged

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