Why Intelligent People Fail Content from Sternberg‚ R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example‚ social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done‚ for instance). External sources tend to be transient‚ while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance. 2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the
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Collections: Why do people collect and how the design of Urban Vinyl toy revolution brought a new era of collectors. ‘Not just objects are collected we are collected…empire is a collection of countries and of populations; a country is a collection of regions and peoples; each given people is a collection of individuals‚ divided into governed and governers- that is collectables and collectors’ Eisner and Cardinal (1994:2) This essay will firstly define what collecting is. Then it will look why people
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“Guns Don’t Kill – People Do! Drugs Don’t Kill – People Do!” Doug Marlette is a well-known cartoonist. Throughout his life‚ he had learned that things are not as clear cut as they seem and that often there are two sides to every story; he began to express this in his art (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2013). “I began understanding my role as an artist. The great novelists see the whole picture…they empathize with the thief and with the saint. They feel the whole thing and they show the whole thing.
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Prison is a long and lonely road to go down and with some of the craziest laws in the country‚ it’s not always clear why people go to prison or if the reasoning is even valid. The best thing that you could do to help pass the time is to write a letter to someone that desperately needs it. Things You’ll Need: * pen * paper * envelope * stamp * photos Step 1: There are a lot of things to remember when writing to a prisoner. The first thing is that you cannot talk about anything that
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infinite amount of reasons why people may take heroin or any other drug for that matter. From personal observations I have noticed that even though the reasons vary by individual there is still a main pattern. I believe most people take heroin because they like the feeling of being drugged. When they are in this state they don ’t have to think about problems. In a way the drug is a diversion from their true feelings and an escape from their ordinary lives. Another reason people may fall into the heroin
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Hitler Becomes Chancellor January 30th‚ 1933‚ President Paul Von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler the chancellor of Germany. Up until that point‚ Hitler had raised in popularity‚ "spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty." (Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany) This led up to Hindenburg getting intimidated by Hitler‚ so he made someone
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Helping people is undoubtedly an honorable thing to do in some instances; however‚ by no means is it morally obligated all the time. Therefore‚ I negate the resolution “Resolved: Individuals have a moral obligation to assist people in need.” Individual (The New Oxford American Dictionary‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2001): A single human being as distinct from a group‚ class‚ or family Moral Obligation (Black’s Law Dictionary): a duty that is based only on one’s conscience and that is not legally
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Essay#4 Why do people visit museums when they travel to new places? Every new place that we visit has different history and culture. People can get to know about a new place by either asking from local people and travelling or visiting museums. Visiting museums is a convenient and easy way to understand and get better knowledge about a new place because we will be able to see such significant things such as handicrafts and archaeological finds with our own eyes. Museums are the places where
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Phuong Thao Topic 1 Why do people go to university? In our developed world today university education is no more a too-high-to-reach goal. Our higher education system is year after year offering a host of more places as well as support in diverse ways to assist those who crave university experience and whose circumstances make it difficult for them to enter university gates. Given the fact that university education is aggrandizing its attraction to more and more people from different backgrounds
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Why do students fail? In modern society‚ almost everyone has a right to learn and the right to receive an education‚ but not everyone has the ability to do it. There are thousands of people who had gone to colleges or universities‚ but after half a year they drop it. When they are asked “Why”‚ a lot of them answer that they simply could not do it. Why some people are unable to study well? Lack of interest and motivation in learning‚ unawareness of the consequences of the actions‚ and academic unpreparedness
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