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John Taylor Frankl How To Be Successful

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In the novel, Frankl informs the reader on how to be successful. Success comes from hard work and determination. If one were to put in the effort to something, then they would be successful. Frankl states, “Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the byproduct of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out …show more content…

Love is an intense feeling of affection for someone or something. But does that mean one can only love the physical structure of someone or something. Frankl illustrates, “Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or no he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.” Frankl thinks love is more than a physical affection. He thinks love is necessary for his survival. During the Holocaust Frankl and his wife got split up. Frankl’s love for his wife is what kept him alive. He believed he was going to see her again when he was freed from Auschwitz. What he didn’t know, and didn’t want to know, is that she was killed in a concentration camp. Not knowing is what kept his love for her strong. He was in love with the thought of her, not just her physical …show more content…

I think the quote spot on for the definition of life in today’s world. Life is demanding to everyone, not just some people. In the sectional semifinal game against Barnesville, my junior year basketball is where life demanded the most from me. My team was leading by four going into the fourth quarter. Two minutes left to go in the game, we found ourselves down by two. Coach Romick called our last timeout, and told us the game plan. Coach Pfalzgraf walked over to me during the timeout and challenge me to bring us back to win the game. In that moment all I could think about was my grandfather. I did it for him, I scored four of our eight points in the closing minutes of the game. During the last two minutes of the game we outscored Barnesville by six points to go on to win by four. After the game I could not stop thinking of how proud my grandpa would be of me. Through the tiredness, doubt, and pain, we all dug deep, and pulled out a win. When life gave us a challenging situation we took the opportunity, and seized all feeling of dismay, to win the

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Love is the key aspect to stay alive at the concentration camp. Everyone who is at these camps is living for someone. Even though Wiesel was weak, and dying of malnutrition, he still worried for his father. This is shown in the quote, “I was thinking of my father. He must have suffered more than I did.”

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“Touchdown Lafayette!” This was the start to my high school career and we were losing in the first half of the game. It took them forever to score so I believed that the defense could go hard and stop them just once. We knew if we lost it would be some smack going on social media so someone had to step up.

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Those who achieve success do in fact work hard; however, there are also countless other factors that play a role in one’s success. Therefore, reading this book opened by eyes to the complexity of success. It is not simply one thing that can lead a person to success. Instead, it is a culmination of many factors that can allow a person to have a successful

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but we had a motive we had an inspiration for the win. It was five o’clock and we had an hour till game time, and I was on my way to the field I was listening to music trying to get in my “zone”. I kept thinking about my dad’s words “Make this count, treat this like your last game. You will never forget

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The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank describes how a young girl's life is changed forever when hiding from the Nazi’s during World War II. In this play, Anne discovers her true values in life when being stuck in an attic for two years without anything fun to do. While the play is still currently read among every age, Elie Wiesel's point of view fascinates many on his life changing experiences during this horrible time. In Elie’s novel, the reader finds out how the life of a young boy and his family are changed forever when taken to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp of Jewish citizens. Although Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank provide different experiences and settings during the Holocaust, both authors emphasize the importance of family

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As there were ten minutes before the game we kept on doing the drills until I heard my coach announcing the starting lineup. I heard my name being announced so I prepared myself to go to the field. I could already see the trophy as it was in a table. As I walked in the field I could smell the trimmed grass and could hear my teammates say “we got this.”

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