'Rhetorical Analysis Of Bernard Roth's Achievement Habit'

Rhetorical Analysis of Roth’s Achievement Habit The second chapter from the book The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth, is titled Reasons Are Bullshit” (The Achievement Habit, Bernard Roth 2015). Roth makes a key point to show that the reasons are nothing more than an excuse, that society deems acceptable. In the book, Roth talks about doing and trying to do things. Meaning, if given a reason for not completing what is an attempt to do that it’s just an excuse or bullshit. In chapter two, Roth goes into a more in-depth look at why reasons are bullshit. Though society finds that excuses and reasons are acceptable, Roth through this chapter shows that they are meaningless and nothing more than an excuse. The belief that reasons are nothing

He has been teaching at the Design school or the D school as it has become known as for the past twenty-plus years and at Stanford for over fifty plus years. In this chapter, Roth tells why reasons are nothing more than excuses. Everyone has a reason or an excuse for not doing something. By approaching the subject directly, Roth engages his students, getting them to think about if they are succeeding or failing themselves by giving an excuse for their actions. Roth states in his book “Reasons exist because if people didn’t explain their behavior, they would seem unreasonable” (The Achievement Habit, Bernard Roth 2015). Roth goes on to disclose “when we use reasons we are not taking full responsibility for our behavior” (Roth, 41). No matter what might be said you are deceiving yourself. Roth speaks to his students or groups and expresses to them that they are all just giving “a gooooood reason” (Roth, 43) as to why they are doing what they do. During the reading it was shown that once it is realized that everything that is done, it is an attempt to justify in oneself or anyone else’s head that it’s okay. When you start to see that reasons are not needed it can just be done and not continue to try to do