Ciara Campos Professor Shamiryan English 096 November 9, 2015 Modifying into Cultures Everybody has a different definition of success. Success can be interpreted into having happiness, having knowledge, and being financially stabled. Most people describe it as being patient and having a positive mindset. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers, demonstrated how without the knowledge of other cultures, there are many things that people won’t consider questioning or realizing about it. He also showed how people need to adapt to a new culture in order to achieve success since it affects how society deals with culturism today.
A review of Eric Lius', The Accidental Asian, and his search for self-discovery. Looking at how his experiences growing up relate to current and future generations of students who are trying to find where they belong in this ethnically structured society. Through Liu’s experiences, we can understand the struggle of identity and help students find their own. Finding that we do not have to have a strong connection to our heritage to have a strong identity and looking for our roots does not make us any less of the person we are now. Breaking stereotypes and understanding others is how we can help students in the future.
Think of success like watching a tree grow the branches split into different paths one can take each split is another opportunity to prosper and grow beautiful leaves like trophies. An uncommon belief is that the process of becoming successful is like a tree branch, if one starts off strong, more paths appear growing from the sturdy branch, and achieving goals lead to leaves growing to show wealth. “It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success,” (Gladwell 30). Author of nonfiction book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, agrees with this uncommon belief, in his book he argues that success does not come from intelligence or passion
When a person is in trouble he wants to live. He fights for his life... Some people say, "Eh -- What will be, will be." No! You have to fight for yourself day by day.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Frederick Douglass. This quote signifies that there can’t be any accomplishments or advancements without having to overcome obstacles and putting an effort to succeed a specific goal. The quote basically states that one has to put up a fight to progress into something further. This quote is a good example of Frederick Douglass despite the fact that he had to overcome a lot of hardships in order to be satisfied in the end.
A part of his article had a lot to do with respect. Not only respect in the game concept, but with fighting as well. He explained that fighting isn’t just something you do when upset. There’s more strategy to it than we perceive. Fighting can be used as a tactic when losing to shake the team and destroy their confidence.
Fighting lets you plan for the worst-case scenario. Elie Wiesel, for example, wrote a memoir about his survival situation. According to the memoir, "it was my turn. "I ran without looking back. " I consider this was his natural instinct to run without hesitation.
In the article “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?” By Paul Tough, Tough wrote an article about educators, psychologist, and sociologist doing research and experiments on if character is important to the success of students. Randolph, who is 49, is the administrator of a competitive school and is leading the charge on if character is really important piece on helping students get better in school. First Randolph experimented with using character report cards that students would be tested on and that teachers would personally grade the student(self-evaluation). Then Randolph would see what was more important, Moral or Character?
Taking a stand is more important than winning in any situation that anyone can be in. When you take a stand and put others before yourself, you feel more accomplished. “As you continue to stand for what you believe, the process will become second
Therefore man, even given the choice to not fight almost hereditarily decides to fight but his struggles more often than not are in
Gladwell’s Argument in Outliers Success is a concept that is constantly altered and has a different meaning from person to person. The stereotypical definition of success would be someone who has a high-paying job or is in the upper-class. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers: The Story of Success, approaches the concept of success in a different and unique way. Gladwell discusses how opportunities, cultural legacy, and hard work all coincide with each other to produce real success. He uses mostly logic and multiple unrelated anecdotes to support and provide evidence for his statements.
Support: Eric Thomas, the author of the book ‘The Secret to Success’, once said about success that whatever paths taking us to success, at some point we all have to go through the boulevard of hard work. Example: If you want to achieve success, hard work and dedication are the second element after explicit plans. In addition, we had better take responsibility for our tasks. None can help us to fulfil our targets but ourselves, hence learning to bear responsibility is very essential.
Success has become relative. When we initially do something that we believe is a success and the public deems it unspectacular, we no longer feel pride and instead feel that we are adequate. America’s social system is loosely based on a meritocracy, with its central idea being that if everyone is presented with the same opportunities to succeed, than everything is equal and fair. If we cannot succeed, it is only our own incompetence that we can
LEADERSHIP LESSONS How did Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong manage to attract followers and inspire them to try their best in achieving a shared goal? How did he manage to convince all his followers that they can reach beyond the ordinary expectations together? These questions can be answered through the visionary leadership style that Uncle Lim possessed, a name he was fondly known as.
How to Achieve Success The term of success appears frequently in public notice and it spurs extensive interests in public. Everybody wants to achieve success, but the fact is that not everyone can make it even though he or she has tried his or her best. Then it comes to a question - how to make it? Does it depend on opportunity or any other features?
