Research indicates that 1/2 to 2/3 of children living in such extreme circumstances grow up and “overcome the odds” and go on to achieve successful and well adjusted lives. Being resilient doesn’t mean going through life without experiencing stress and pain. People feel grief, sadness, and a range of other emotions after adversity and loss. The road to resilience lies in working through the emotions and effects of stress and painful events. Being resilient is important if you want to become like Bill Gate, or any other successful person. I believe that Louis Silvie Zamperini, Sardar Milkha Singh, and Maysoon Zayid all displayed resilience though out there respected lifetimes and have become such successful people. Louis Zamperini was , if I …show more content…
His family and him knew little to no English. So went he started kids would bully him, because he didn't know any English. At times, the bullying would turn physical. So in order to protect himself from amy more harm, Zamperini learned boxing. Somehow, Zamperini got into so many fights that he became addicted to fight people. Zamperini got so uncontrollable that he even went to juvenile prison. His parents, even though they love, thought that he would end up doing some pretty dark stuff when he grows up. Things took a big turn, for the better, when Zamperini attended Torrence High School, his older brother Pete encouraged him to join the track and field team. He finally discovered what he was meant to do in his life. In the 1936 Olympic qualification round, he became the youngest ever to qualify for the Olympics. Its ironic how Zamperini set a record even before he actually ran in the Olympics. During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Zamperini ran a 5,000 meter run. His overall finishing time was 14:46.8. But eh finished his final lap in 56 seconds, the fastest for any American. Due to Zamperini’s amazing finish, when he meet Adolf Hitler, Hitler remembered him. He said “ Ah, the