Collins (2001) and his research team contrasts the good-to-great companies with a carefully select set of comparison companies that did not make the leap from good to great. “Good is the enemy of great” (Collins, 2001, p. 1). This quote assesses and makes the assumption that because a company, school, or even a government is good, they never make the transition to greatness. Acquiring the astigmatism of good are enough and sometimes this causes companies, and other individuals to become complacent, never venturing to further their status to greatness. Collins (2001) assesses that the “vast majority of companies never become great because the vast majority become quite good, and that is their main problem” (p. 3).
In the Right to fail written William Zinsser believed the dream was attainable and that you could fail while trying to get there. Society basically makes the impression on people that failing is bad. Failing isn’t bad at all. You may need to fail just to see where you went wrong. In fact many successful people have failed in their lifetime but still reached the dream.
His hardships were his childhood, isolation, and competition. First of all, Ender became a great leader because of his childhood bullies. Ender beating up Stilson ended his bullying on Earth. Ender realized, “I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.” Ender was planning ahead for the future which is a trait that a great leader needs. In addition.
10. Yes , but to an extent because sometimes that’s the only way you can get them to listen 11. Yes , I would encourage that because when you compete against someone you’re cool with but you want to beat the it makes the competition more
Often success is brought about by change, a change that is usually for the better, even if at first only despair and pain seem present. Success can only be attained through realization of oneself and personal growth. Personal success is derived not only from realizing that an accomplishment has been made, but also the evidential growth through its achievement. Without having knowledge of what needs to be changed, one cannot hope to succeed through remedying the situation. In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse McClellan posed a question to Guy Montag, one that started the foreign clockwork that was thinking.
Many people make statements such as “I am lucky to be alive”, “I am so lucky I won”, and “I’m just not lucky” and truly believe that luck is something that is beyond their influence or control. They do not think that any amount of preparation would improve their luck since it is just a random event. Some believe that it is a supernatural force similar to a deity that does as it pleases with no method or reason behind its actions and that we are subject to its whim and desires. I disagree with those schools of thought and find my personal opinion in agreement with Ms. Winfrey’s statement. Merriam-Webster defines luck in many different ways, but two definitions caught my attention were: “the things that happen to a person because of chance” and “success in doing or getting something”.
To express this in other words, if you are working on a hard problem, you are going to make mistakes. It’s easy to expect perfection from ourselves and/or the fear the judgment that comes with “messing up”. Even at its worse, we learn from those errors to really dive into the problem for a successful result. That is not a new concept, but it is one that is often forgotten. Mistakes are actually indicators that you are actually trying to succeed, so without them you are not doing much at all.
(page 52) The society all says the same thing because, at that time, the government wanted everyone to be “equal”. Society takes away the curiosity of what is beyond just their town. Keeping it the same means no change which can make your emotions stay the same. Montag is sad simply because he is never happy. People need to be bothered, not by self-inflated bubbles but by something important, something real.
I have never met a person, male or female, black or white, smart or dumb, that has ever said “I want to be second best.” We all want to feel that we are accomplished. I am in no way an exception to this idea. I do want to be the best, which is not a bad thing but it becomes an issue when purposely hurt another just to make us feel better. Also, the way we treat people that are not similar to us. It’s happened
A weak-sense critical thinker is although it is working well for the thinker in some respects, it is missing certain important, higher-level skills and values of critical thinking. Most significantly, it fails to consider, in good faith, viewpoints that contradict its own viewpoint. It lacks fair-mindedness. Another traditional name for the weak-sense thinker is sophist. Sophistry is the art of winning arguments regardless of whether there are problems in the thinking being used, regardless of whether relevant viewpoints are being ignored.