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Although ballet is just a dance class I have found out that I can apply some of the same lessons to other various things. The most important thing I can apply it to is life itself. Some of the topics I can apply are discipline, posture,perseverance and having a fun time. Discipline because in order to learn a step the proper way, the dancer must be willing to pay attention to the instructor and control the urge to do anything that was not asked to do. This same lesson can be utilized in life because sometimes in order to learn new material you must allow a person with more experience to teach you. This cannot be done as easily if the student is unwilling to pay attention and control him or herself.


Posture and alignment in ballet is critical when speaking about the outcome of a certain move, such as balancing. If a ballerina is out of alignment then it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve the same greatness than if she had proper posture from the beginning. Even though in life a person is rarely asked to do any sort of balancing, posture is still very important. The reason for this is that certain posture project different levels of confidence, which then can affect the status and relationships in life. If a person stands straight and maintains a high head they will be seeing as having confidence and they can further their career. It is also important to keep your eyes high because it also increases the appearance of confidence.

Perseverance is both an important and useful lesson that should be learn and it can be applied to not just ballet, but life in general. Dancers can be seeing persevering when a certain move is difficult to do or a if they are having trouble memorizing a routine. When a dancer is faced with these problems he or she can either give up and tell themselves that there is just no way they can ever accomplish that or they can persevere and succeed. The path to success is not as easy or straightforward one, but the reward is well-worth it. The same thing can apply in non-dance related things in life because in life people are often faced with obstacle, and the result of that situation is up to that individual only. That person can decide whether to tackle the obstacle time and time again until they manage to accomplish what they wanted or just give up. Although the latter is obviously much easier, it won't help the individual much. That person will not try to improve themselves because they will just give up if something gets to be too difficult.


Last but not least, ballet also teaches you to have fun. Although this may not seem so apparent, it only takes a small amount of time before a dancer realizes this. Some may think doing ballet is an activity that requires the dancer to be extremely strict and serious, but in reality this is not always the case. One example that displays how much fun ballet can be is when a group of students are working on a dance recital. Although at first there are many mistakes and everything is chaotic, it is not always so frustrating and can be viewed as having a fun time. Sure it most definitely wouldn't be considered fun if there was that many mistakes and chaos during the learning process is not so harmful in the beginning, as long as things get done and eventually improve. Learning to have fun in life is a reminder that there's more to it than just being serious and completely productive. It's not always such a negative thing to digress from your main goal and relax a bit. In the end, relaxing might actually help you reach your goal in a more successful way.

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