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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” Growing involves time and to grow in any particular skill you must use that time and develop whatever it may be that you are wanting to grow and do. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, you cannot grow unless you try to go on further than what you have already done, growing comes with time and effort and if you were to not try and grow your life would be easy for that but you would not increase any part of your life.
In opposition to what has been said about this, if you do not grow, then you will not have to work on anything. Living with this lifestyle would make your life very easy and boring. Continuing to master what you have already mastered could be a neat thing to do because if you completely master something, which takes 10,000
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Most people will talk to their friends about new things that happened in their lives, however, if nothing new happens to you and you only have one skill, then you only have one thing to share and will just be saying the same thing over again. Trying new things is part of living and if you do not try new things, then you will not be able to share new experiences about different things. This past year my friend and I decided to try to play Lacrosse, we looked up how to play, what we needed, and when tryouts were and started practicing so that we could make the team and learn more. Throughout the season we were learning all sorts of new things, whether it be plays or simply the rules of the game; during this we grew our knowledge of the how to play and what the rules were, had we not chosen to play this we would still be completely clueless on what lacrosse even was besides that it was a sport. Since we tried this new thing we had something new to talk about and were able to laugh and talk about our mistakes with other

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