John Green is a modern author and YouTuber who many would consider to be successful. He has published seven books, two of which are already successful movies, and at least one other is in the process of being converted into a major motion picture. His YouTube account that he and his brother, Hank Green, maintain, “VlogBrothers”, has around 3 million subscribers and his “Crash Course” YouTube account has over 5 million subscribers (7a). He and his brother also created VidCon, which has turned out to be one of the biggest conferences for the online video community, hosting about 168 creators and now occurring internationally with one event in Australia and one event in Europe – and the original event in the US (4a). Green has accomplished all this while still being under 40 years old. His success can be attributed to the unique situations he was exposed to and his hard work. John …show more content…
One obstacle he faced was his obsessive compulsive disorder. This disorder makes life difficult, including writing books, because it causes someone to not only be an extreme perfectionist, but to also be more prone to anxiety in general. It could make it hard to focus on one thing when he has so many other responsibilities (Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, Vidcon, Charity organizations he created to give largesse to people in need, etc.) (7). He has worked through this mental illness by getting therapists and medicine and learning “to celebrate small successes. I’ve learned to encourage myself without being cruel. I’ve learned that there is hope, and when I feel like there isn’t hope, my brain is lying to me” (Green, 2015). The mental strength to seek help in the form of psychiatrists and treatments, is something Gladwell states to be present in outliers because “outliers are those… who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize [opportunities]” (Gladwell, 2008,
... or would come in contact with. He’s a proven fact that you can make it, even through the roughness situations, like him being in prison for seven years. He talks and says, “I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me;” “I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life;” “As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive,” (p.217). With that being said I will end this paper with one more quote from this brilliant African American Man, “My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America,” (p.217). His teachings shall be something that every African American carry with them throughout educational and everyday life.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
#3 Green Run opened up their gym Wednesday night and welcomed in #8 Maury Commodores. This story before this game tipped off was anticipated to be Green Runs interior players vs the backcourt of Maury.
He has the knowledge of philosophy and psychology. He attempted to write when he was a youth, but he made a choice to pursue a literary career in 1919. After he published Cane, he became part of New York literary circles. He objected both rivalries that prevailed in the fraternity of writers and to attempts to promote him as a black writer (Claypool 3). In Washington in 1921 he took care of his grandparents and wrote full time....
People may argue that Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is all about family background and family legacies. Others may say that what mattered most is the way someone are brought up and how much time and dedication they put into a skill or goal. People may also say that all of these factors are what the book focuses on in order to be successful. The book is not about family background, the “10,000 Hour-Rule”, or “Rice Paddies”. All of those encompass something very important, opportunity to actually apply those theories. The most important theory Gladwell presents is that opportunities are the key to become successful more so than the other theories.
as a writer has been to make the public aware of his opinions through his very popular and
thoughts on war, as many of the scenes in his book are dramatized and ironic to allow him to
He was a smart kid but it didn't show in his school work, he was more of a fighter , if he was being teased he would settle it with his fist and not his mind. It wasn't until he found his voice in writing for him to actually take school seriously. At a very young age his mother read to him and he started to vision other worlds beyond his surroundings. High school is where he figured out he wanted to be an author. At age 17 he joined the army but he would also keep his writing dream alive. At night he wrote short stories and columns for men’s magazines. After the army he was barely surviving , and he didn't know what to do next. He says James Baldwin inspired him to write after reading one of his short stories telling about his life and being African American. He therefore decided to write about his own struggles when growing up and being a troubled boy. He tells about how he came out of the dismayed lifestyle and made it through. He once said , “I write books for the troubled boy I once was, and for the boy who lives within me still. It’s what I do.” This quote says a lot about his character and what he wants for other young men. He not only writes books but he writes them for a
Gladwell’s style of writing begins with explaining or presenting an example of someone with success in a field. He then quickly refutes the reader’...
... let the events that were occurring to demolish his dream. He moved to Chicago because in the North the conditions were said to be much better than they were in the South for blacks. When times were tough he never gave up. The book is proof that all his hard work paid off.
This autobiography shows the importance reading had on him then and now. He learned quite a lot from prison and seemed to be happy with the way he learned. Like he stated " I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
Thomas Green is a promising young professional with a degree in Economics from the University of Georgia. Green started his career with a company called National Business Solutions before finding new employment at Dynamic Displays. At National, Green was an account executive in the Banking Division, where he sold ATMs to financial institutions. After six successful years, Green was recruited to become an account executive at Dynamic Displays, where he sold automated kiosks predominantly to airline companies. When Thomas joined Dynamic, he looked to “dazzle” management with the intent of climbing the corporate ladder. Thomas’s work ethic and early achievements did just that. Soon he had garnered the attention of senior executives who were eager to strengthen his relationship with the company.
Because of “Project for Awesome” and various viral internet projects, Green formed followers that came to know themselves as “Nerdfighters” (Minard). His popularity soared along with his novels. Today he has accumulated over one million YouTube views and 1.5 million twitter followers that all look forward to what he has to say (“John Green On Self”). The number of people joining has only increased to a point where a whopping 83% believes he should be added to Times 100 for his influence (Times).
In the book Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, he answers the question: what makes high-achievers different? Gladwell is a world renown author for the New Yorker and he believes there is an answer to why people become famous and successful. The extremely successful people that Gladwell talks about in his book are called outliers, people who stand out from others as being extraordinary for what they have accomplished in society. This book was written very well, yet as a personal fan of malcolm gladwell’s books, which makes me partial to his style of writing. I thought it was very educational and intriguing to read because of the real life examples Gladwell brings to the table and
Through the use of multiple examples and rhetorical devices Gladwell effectively convinces his audience that there are numerous factors other than oneself that contribute to an individual's success. His use of logical appeals in his stories about successful people along with his use of metaphors, onomatopoeias and other rhetorical devices convince the reader that factors such as the 10,000 hour rule,hard work, and luck contribute to an individual's success. Although Outliers may have some statistical flaws, Gladwell’s novel continually affects his audience in a positive way by encouraging and convincing them that there are many other factors that will help them become successful in their careers and in their future lives.