My parents have always convinced me to challenge myself, for which I'm really grateful.

我的父母一直说服我去挑战自己，对此我非常感激。

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Realised that every challenge teaches me something valuable about myself.

实现每个挑战会教给我一些有价值的东西。

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The result was not as good as I expected, but I preferred to regard it as a challenge to myself, whose process was the most important for me.

虽然结果不像我想象中的那么好，但是我宁愿把它当做一次对自己的挑战，过程对我来说才是最重要的。

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And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

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As a result of all this, feeding myself in a way that made me feel good and satisfied sometimes proved to be a huge challenge.

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