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The right mindset for success
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A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink discusses the shift of our generation's needs for different types of thinkers. According to the book, there are two types of thinking. Left-directed or left-brained and right-directed or right-brained thinking. L-directed thinkers are much more analytical and factual than R-directed thinkers, who are artistic, sympathetic, and more emotional. In the past, the industrial age required physical laborers, mostly for factory work; however, as the informational age crept in, the need for l-brained people expanded.
In the poem, “Becoming and Going: An Oldsmobile Story” by Gerald Hill the speaker is traveling down a road in the Fort Qu’appelle Valley. He notices his father and his son are also driving down this road. The speaker then begins to list the two men’s characteristics. As he lists them we see that the father and the son have both similarities and differences in their personalities.
In “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose explains the experience being part of a school system that had no prior knowledge to have educators to teach students. Rose supports his claims by describing the different situations he had to encounter with the lack of the school system, the hopelessness of the teachers and his peers, that lead those students with no support to lead them in a direction of success. Rose purpose is to point out that; all that it was needed was a teacher that cared enough to teach and to influence those students to succeed and to never hinder the student’s learning experience because anything is possible with an little of an encouragement. In the 8th paragraph in “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Rose describes what it felt like
In the book, The Achievement Habit, by Bernard Roth, chapter two reasons are bullshit, Roth gives multiple examples on the rhetorical triangle, pathos, ethos, and logos. Logos which is the logical appeal, ethos are the ethical appeal, and pathos which is the emotional appeal to the reader. In chapter two, reasons are bullshit the author talks about the reasons that people give are pointless. He also states that people should stop giving excuses. That any kind of excuse, besides being sick or a death in the family, should not be accepted.
Author Mike Rose recites his experiences with mediocrity in high school in his short story I Just Wanna Be Average. Rose explains a time in high school when he became content with being average. Surrounded by bad influences, he struggles to pull himself out of the mundane and into the extraordinary. With the help of a mentor, Rose begins excelling in school, creating a happier life for himself and ultimately starting the road to success he strides on today. Rose starts his story off recounting the morning bus ride.
In the short story "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien, a young man named Tim needs to make a difficult decision: whether to go to war or flee to Canada to avoid the draft. Tim O'Brien explores the nature of motivation, particularly as it relates to difficult decisions and moral dilemmas. Motivation is a complex concept that many factors, such as personal values, social pressure, external rewards, power, and fear, can influence. Many factors make it difficult for him to decide, including shame, society's pressure, and his values. Tim’s goal in this short story is to decide based on his values, which can be difficult because one can lose self-respect when others don't agree with their beliefs.
“Reasons are Bull shit” Chapter two of the Bernard Roths book “The Achievement Habit” where it explains how most people don’t fully understand how they make up excuses to make them feel better for the things they don’t want to own. The main objective of chapter two of Roth’s book is trying to have people understand that there is always something we find to excuse us from our own wrongs. Roth starts his second chapter out by Saying “The problem with reasons is that they’re just excuses prettied up” (Roth 39). He talks about how his students in class will always say”that’s a good reason” when they hear somebody with an excuse. Roth uses Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle as implying ethos, pathos, and logos to support his main points within chapter
In every school there are set policies and procedures so that all people working within the school are aware and stick to the same rules. Consistency is imperative. All adults working in the school would be : teaching staff, support staff, lunchtime supervisors, kitchen staff, governors, after school staff and temporary staff. There are many policies in schools that children and staff should be aware of.
Are We Really Getting Smarter? How many times do you think the kids of this generation have heard from their parents/guardians that video games are bad for them and can ruin their brain? Probably the majority of the younger population in America has heard that at least once. But is it really that bad for you? Although that topic can be very controversial, it is a fact that this generation of kids are going through a revolutionary time period in terms of technology.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is the most amazing basketball players of all time and he is so incredible because he was determined to be great. He once said “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen”. He worked on anything he could whether it was his jump shot, defense, or ball handling he worked on something. His determination to win and beat people that are called great was his driving force for his success. To succeed you must have determination because if you are not determined you would not be able to get passed an obstacle in your way.
Recently many people have been discussing the issue of universities charging more and more money to attend. This unfortunately is very true, the difference between what people in the 1980’s paid for college and now is unbelievable. The average cost of public, in state college was around $3,000 per year in 1985, while the average cost per year of a private college was around $13,000 that same year. Nowadays, the total cost per year of attending the same types of colleges would be $9,500 and $32,000 respectively. And if you were wondering, yes, that is adjusted for inflation.
Imogene King’s Theory of Goal Attainment Theorist Imogene King was born on January 30, 1923 in West Point, Iowa. She attained a Diploma in nursing from St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing, Missouri in 1945. She went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1948, and afterwards, graduated with Master of Science in Nursing in 1957, from St Louis University. Later in 1961, she achieved a Doctorate from Teacher’s College in Columbia. She held different leadership, administration, and educational positions before retiring in 1990.
“Positive emotion” help us in a whole range of ways; consequently, two of those ways are pushing ourselves physically to accomplish a goal and mentally by turning a threat related thoughts into positive one. Furthermore, “engagement” allows us to reach a state of flow, being in a state of flow allows us to focus mentally and improve our overall performance. Moreover, “relationships” nurture support which allow us to look at challenges as less challenging. Relationships give us the mental boost to crush our challenges physically. A sense of “meaning” helps us reach our goals by mentally and physically not giving up; therefore, allowing us to accomplish our goals because they have a sense of purpose.
Likewise, in the meaningless chaos and completely randomness of the universe, meaning can be found. Humanity does not need to be confined to the inferno of their own minds, do not need to be forever wandering in a futile search of meaning, do not need to be stranded on the beach, unable to attain the mermaids of meaning and connection. Life can have meaning, in spite of the indifferent universe around us. And life can be a rebellion against the vast meaninglessness of the gaping void, of a universe that deems humanity
The theme of this essay is that self discipline encourages self improvement. He proves this many times. Such as when he says, “what fabulous and undeveloped mines are to be found in nature, friendship, and oneself! … Later, forgetting that this habit was adopted under duress, he will be astonished to find so many resources within himself.” (Trudeau 1).