Ben Carson Paper
Ben Carson: gifted, intellectual, and one of the most talented surgeons of his generation. Those are just a few words to describe the well-renown and inspiring Dr. Ben Carson. Unfortunately, people didn’t always use these words to describe the talented surgeon. At a young age Ben Carson was forced to overcome obstacles in school. Carson struggled academically throughout elementary school, and was often referred to as the “class dummy”. Carson began to rise to the top in middle and throughout high school, and he eventually graduated high school with honors. The talented young black man went on to attend Yale University with a scholarship, earning a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. After Yale, Carson went into medical school at the University of Michigan, where he specialized in neurosurgery. One writer describes Carson’s life obstacles as inspiring, “The lessons imparted by Dr. Carson are inspiring because they are an echo of his own life. He faced more than his share of hard knocks on the rough necked streets of Detroit” (BASU).
Throughout his impressive career Dr. Ben Carson wrote four bestselling books. He revealed his book “The Big Picture” to the world in 2000. In it he writes about the victim mentality and how he see’s minorities everyday struggle with this. Carson describes these “victims” of the mentality as people who: “Have a small-picture perspective on hardship--because that is what a victim mentality is. It is a short-range, self-centered, limited outlook, where the zoom lense of your attention stays so focused on the closest, most immediate obstacles that nothing else can be seen” (CARSON BOOK). Meaning people who fall under this mentality typically blame everyone else for their hardships instead of self-reflecting; essentially becoming the “victim” of any obstacle placed in front of them. Victims never view themselves as responsible for seemingly impossible obstacles, and assume little to no responsibility for solving those problems.
Throughout his impressive career Dr. Ben Carson wrote four bestselling books. He revealed his book “The Big Picture” to the world in 2000. In it he writes about the victim mentality and how he see’s minorities everyday struggle with this. Carson describes these “victims” of the mentality as people who: “Have a small-picture perspective on hardship--because that is what a victim mentality is. It is a short-range, self-centered, limited outlook, where the zoom lense of your attention stays so focused on the closest, most immediate obstacles that nothing else can be seen” (CARSON BOOK). Meaning people who fall under this mentality typically blame everyone else for their hardships instead of self-reflecting; essentially becoming the “victim” of any obstacle placed in front of them. Victims never view themselves as responsible for seemingly impossible obstacles, and assume little to no responsibility for solving those problems.