Mental Toughness- Train Write

To me, "mental toughness" means pushing through aches and pains when one is physically exhausted. When one feels like their body can no longer function, and they have to use their inner drive to succeed. As an athlete, I have faced many accounts of mental toughness. Playing soccer for the past fourteen years, I know what it's like to be tired and want to give up. My legs feel like weights dragging across the ground, but I find a way to push through. I always tend to tell myself "you're not tired- you can run longer, sprint faster, push harder". It can be extremely difficult at times, but that is exactly why it is called mental "toughness". I have a really good understanding of mental toughness since I am an athlete, but there are many other situations in which you have to know what it means. For example, say it's finals time- you have already studied for most of your classes but you're not quite done. It's getting to be pretty late in the evening and you want to call quits, knowing that you still have to study for a couple more classes. As a student, one has to be mentally tough and push through being exhausted to study for those last finals. Being an athlete may have introduced mental toughness to me, but you don't have to be an athlete to know the importance of a mental game. You just have to think of a time when you wanted to quite and then didn't because a voice in your head told you not to. In the end, you know you made the right choice of sticking with whatever task you were undertaking. That is mental toughness.