Focusing on effort is effective in helping children overcome frustration and achieve success.

To show its effort to overcome complacency.

The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor (嚴格要求) and faster pace of a university classroom –and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified.

Huge obstacles It could, of course, also be that Obama's success helps people to forget that a disproportionate number of black Americans still live in poverty and face huge obstacles when trying to overcome these circumstances

And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.

Gathering your resources to "try hard" requires burning energy in order to overcome your currently low arousal level.

Smart basketball players or skilled musicians need to pay close attention to the demands of high performance, to the challenges to be overcome.

So much research has explored the way in which collegial ties can help overcome a range of workplace issues affecting productivity and the quality of work output such as team-based conflict, jealousy, undermining, anger, and more.