Why is it helpful to connect your skills and experiences to your personal history? Connections allow you to take on greater challenges.
Connections help others to find interest in your work.
Connections can determine your career path.
Connections allow patterns that can focus your planning.

The first option

Explanation:Although im not exactly sure this is right, it is what i would go with

Connections allow patterns that can focus your planning

Explanation:

A reflective profile acts as a tool to help you identify and understand your strengths, interests, skills, personality, and values.

citizens are given 25 years of life to prove their worth to society; if they fail to do great things

harlem's  cotton club boasted the talents of duke ellington. singers such as bessie smith and billie holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. jelly roll morton and louis armstrong drew huge audiences as white americans as well as african americans caught jazz fever.