Success In Chapter One Of David And Goliath

Aaron Vang
10/19/16
English 098
Position Essay Being successful doesn’t always mean going to school and getting a degree. People can be successful in their own ways, they just have to find their passion. Everyone defines success differently. To some, it may be earning a lot of money and to others, it's spending everyday with their loved ones living happily. A lot of people misunderstand what leads to success. Success is more than just being able to fill your bank account with loads of money, it’s about being satisfied with the lifestyle that you have. Of course having money makes you happy, but it can’t buy happiness, love, respect, or even trust. Everyone is born with their own unique talents and is better at a specific skill compared to
In Chapter One of David and Goliath, Gladwell tells how Vivek Ranadive and his daughter’s Junior High basketball team came out victorious against various teams. Even though his twelve-year old Anjali had never played basketball before, she tried her best to learn and worked hard to improve. Many of the other teams that the Redwood City, Ranadive’s team, had to face were more experienced with playing basketball, so Ranadive had to use an effective training method to allow the girls to do their best. To have the girls do the best they can do against a more experienced team, Ranadive trained his girls by “following a soccer strategy in practice,” by making them “run and run and run,” so they can be “more fit than the others” (29). By training them hard, it allowed them to do the best they could do because practice has adapt their body to more pressure and strength. Practicing a skill over and over can enhance the mind and body and will eventually
His motivation started when he met a man named Bimbi. Bimbi was far more educated than he was, which lead him into feeling jealous and determined. Because Malcolm X was in Prison, he was limited in learning how to read and write. He can only look at available books from the prison library. He read what he could and skipped the worlds he didn't know, which he found was was very frustrating. When he finally got a hold of a dictionary, he began to study and memorize the whole dictionary by copying down words everyday. Soon enough, he realized that he can remember each word’s meaning. With his newly gained understanding of these words, he began to read from the teachings of Elijah Muhammad and became extremely interested in black history and slavery. To him, succeeding is to learn how to read and write literature. He became really successful by motivating himself to keep on reading and studying the dictionary. He took advantage of his resources and used his time in prison wisely. However, he had a lot of time in prison so he learned at his own