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Benjamin McCombs

Mr. Ermert

Senior Literature

03 March 2019

My Heroic Journey: Magical Weapons

I have many skills, talents, and abilities that can enable me to complete my heroic

journey through this life successfully. I am a talented athlete, a courageous leader, and a smart

student. I use these skills to pursue my passions in life to the best of my ability, whether that be

swimming, school, or my personal hobbies. Even though I might have my downfalls, I can bring

myself up from any negative situation and conquer my goals.

My traits include being caring, nonjudgemental toward others, and adaptive of my

surroundings, which are the results from my enneagrams test. According to the results of the test,

my focus of attention is intellectual understanding, accumulating knowledge, and potential

intrusions from others’ agendas, needs, and feelings. I would say some of the results are spot on

but I would like to say that even though I wish a clear intellectual understanding, I do want to

involve myself in others needs and feelings. I care for others as I have been taught to for many

years, despite the fact my personality test says otherwise. I am well read and thoughtful and am a

expert in what I am an expert in. Even though most people with my personality type are more

scientifically oriented, I am drawn to humanities and have artistic inclinations. That includes my

passion for music and art. My traits aren’t my only strengths, but I have a talent for athletics as

well. Since age 5, I have been an avid swimmer. Since then I have only grown in my abilities and
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strength. I am able to compete with the top swimmers of my age group now through years of

swimming. Swimming is one of the talents that I possess.

I wish to improve on the weaknesses reflected in my life such as being stubborn and

conflict avoidant. I can do this by stop procrastinating and finding solutions to my problems

headstrong and without avoidance. There are several ways I can do this, a couple is trying to be

more open with people and directly communicating if I need help with something. I can also just

try to be less shy, nonintrusive, and independent and try to be more open towards people. There

are many ways I will be able to improve my weaknesses, but more importantly, capture my

strengths to complete my heroic life.