1.+Persisting

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In a digital lab report project, our group came up with a lab involving nitric acid and silver. Our plan was to dissolve silver bar in different concentrations of nitric acid to measure the rate in which the silver dissolves. As a result, the design of the lab turned to be fairly simple as all we had to do was drop a silver bar in acid and measure the rate it dissolves through the change in mass. However, once we started the lab, an unexpected problem occured. For various possible reasons, the silver bar would not react with any of the different concentrations of nitric acid. Therefore, we spent almost the whole class trying to understand why the lab would not work.

I continuously tried to think of alternative ways to solve our problem. I thought of possible problems such as whether or not the bar was actually silver. Furthermore, I wondered if acid is actually acidic, which we were able to check through litmus paper. However, although I tried my best, I sometimes felt like giving up and designing another experiment just to get it over with. Because of this, I was able to learn that there is still space for development in my persisting habit of the mind. In order to develop this habit and overcome my weaknesses, I am planning to become more persistent since I know that it will eventually lead to good results just as how our lab was successful.