Mr. Eric Maisel once said “Creativity is not a talent or ability. It is the fruit of a person’s decision to matter.” In his book, “Become a Creativity Coach Now!,” Mr. Maisel has written countless books and articles on how one does not need to have a certain ability or talent to achieve things. In his article, “The Smart Gap” published in Psychology Today, he talks about how a person doesn’t have to be the smartest person in the world to achieve things. Eric Maisel manages to talk about the subject of not being as smart as other people in a way that makes you understand and want to try better, but it also makes you feel bad about yourself. In the article, “The Smart Gap,” Maisel starts his article up with about how we, as humans, compare ourselves to each other and always want to be the next best thing, but that is unrealistic for a lot of people. He says that some things that a person might want to do may just be unavailable enough, so that you don’t achieve something or doubt yourself. A sentence from the article that describes this idea is, “Your brain needs …show more content…
He is a person who has overcome adversity and therefore has grit. Stephen King’s father left his family without warning when Stephen King was a young boy. His first novel, The Long Walk, was rejected and he took the rejection hard, but kept writing. He started writing his novel, The Dark Tower, but the expenses of writing were too much for him to pay. King submitted his novel Carrie to 30 publishers and got rejected each time. When he submitted the story to Doubleday in January of 1973, they bought it two months later. Since then, the book was sold thousands of copies and was made into a movie in 1976 and had a remake in 2013. He has since written many books that have become wildly popular. A good amount of his books have become movies (“It”, “Pet Cemetary”) and two became television shows (The Colorado Kid was made into “Haven” and Under the