Direction: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
One wins after having failed time after time. The essence behind real winning is not giving up, no matter what badges and medals society is handing out. When it comes to your 'heroes' and those who define success and hard work for you, you see them the same way. These people are your real heroes because they display an impressive standard of consistent hard work, and through that hard work have achieved expertise in their fields. and that is why you love to fixate on and romanticise how many times they failed, lost and were rejected.
You are hugely understanding and forgiving of their failures and mistakes. You believe in them because you know they are not the type to give up. So, in your story, the traditional sense of winning applies. In the stories of those you admire, winning has everything to do with a never-give-up spirit, excelling in a skill, and doing so by hard work.
The only reason why you are still stuck with traditional winning is that you grew up seeing it and because society treats it as the most important thing. But you won't make it very far with the traditional sense of winning because it is short-sighted. It's focused only on an event, the results of an exam, a competition. It appeals to the need for instant gratification. Winning is not a single event. It is a continuous process. There are plenty of people scratching their heads, wondering, they used to be the top of their class and now they were nowhere. It is because of the reason that they were happy with those wins and lost the track of what happened after.
1. Winning is not about medals and badges.
2. Winning is all about medals and badges.
3. Real winning exists only when it is recognized by the society.
4. None of these.
