A Challenge

Do you enjoy challenges? What kind of challenge do you enjoy? Physical? Mental? Why do you think this is so? Can you give an example of a challenge you have faced, or one you would like to face? How about a challenge you would not like to face? If you don’t like challenges, explain why you don’t.

• Yes, I enjoy several different types of challenges. However, one thing that bothers me a lot is that the challenges I enjoy are extremely specific, and most of the time my passion for solving that challenge would fade away, and I would only challenge it when I feel like it. It's a weird habit, but something that I can't change. It's just like when you first listen to a good song, you like it a lot, so you want to keep listening to it. However, after you listened to it too many times, you will start to be annoyed by the same song. The challenges I enjoy are mostly physical challenges. Very few of them are mental challenges. I like physical challenges because I enjoy feeling the strain and stress, because it makes me feel like "I'm there". It's weird, I know, but, I just enjoy it. One example is the condition training we get during basketball practice. The training we usually do include running the stairs (up and down, causes a lot of strain on your leg, and it sores like HELL), push ups, and also sit ups. I don't like mental challenges because I am never good at them. Even if I try really hard, I could never get the mental challenges, such as brain twisters. My brain can never really "twist fast enough" or it can't even twist around.