Pendulum By Jonah Lehrer Analysis

1. The reason why I think he wrote this essay is to point out that people aren't born genius but rather hard work shapes them." He filled entire vellum notebooks with his scribbled and spent weeks recording the exact movement of pendulum. (Pg 58 Jonah Lehrer) . This says that it's wasn't easy for Isaac Newton to discovered gravity but the story I always heard was completely different from the one I am hearing now, the story I heard before he didn't even drops a one bit of sweat. I think he is addressing this essay to everyone and everybody and to the people who want to give up because they are bad at math or science and they see other success. Jonah Lehrer want to point out that it's not always what it seems, people are success because they

Jonas Leher point out who formed this concussion if its a scantiest or a professor and he not only provide the idea and the story but also a person behind it. I thought this piece of information was important because it made it less frustrated for a reader and easy to follow. I also like how all character story had a connection this was also helpful to understand what the author was saying. This read had lots of context from back in 1666 Cambridge, England difficultly discovering gravity and in modern time professed, an author Samuel Smile and a psychologist from a university of Pennsylvania and come to study done on elite military academy, and a scientist focused on trying to raise IQ level, and to a study done on praising children's and there

lots of conclusion from successful and well know people and there research and the study they have done, to have better understanding of our mind. I think this passage shows that hard work and having a fix mind can makes you successful even if an individual think other wise.
5. I think the author is trying to point out that little thing matter. When just praising children's differently hade significant different result on the test and the college student who focused at one topic did better then those who keep changing there mind, this little think help even if it was not enough.
6. I don't have a question yet but I was able to arise a new attitude toward my mind and my ability.
7. I had always thought that some were naturally gifted but I knew hard work was also a part of it. I always had hard time remembering and because of it, my performance on thing weren't good but later I learned that if I put extra work on it and try, I would have better luck.
8. I think Carol Dweck want to point out that no one is born with the ability to do well people with different mind set perform differently and some does suffer, but not all. I think author is addressing this to people who are learning or going to school
9. I thought it was a good story, the thing that help me was there wasn't many difficulty vocabulary because of that I was able to understand the story