I believe in the power of the hardworking individual as a driving force. Hard work is the locomotive of our survival and the driving force that has qualified us the top of our food chain over the course of the last 200,000 years. People sometimes say that the human race is going downhill, but I could not further disagree with this. Yes-- the problems today are engulfing and more than worthy of us, but they are problems that we will deal with the same way we always have-- and that is one by one. I was less than 5 when I began playing piano. Playing the piano isn’t like playing in a band or orchestra where you spend only a fraction of the time playing and even less of that practicing. Playing the piano, you can’t hide the fact of how long you practiced, because there is a direct tie between effort and reward which always holds true. I never wanted to play piano myself. It was always the choice of my parents and their drive to have me do some extra-curricular activities. But as I got older, they also became interested in the piano examinations. ABRSM, the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music delivers over 650,000 examinations a year to over 93 countries worldwide. When I heard of the fact that my parents had signed me up for the examinations, I was shocked. I had played piano for more than 5 years but I had never had an experience like this. It proved more difficult than I ever thought possible. My sister and I would spend hours together-- she would check off the scales that I had yet to memorize in on a excel sheet at the end of every nights practice. The difficult part about an examination like this is not playing the notes. A piano has 88 keys, none of which are a challenge to play. The difficult part is playing the not... ... middle of paper ... ...mankind, that makes us who we are. This I believe. In the coming days, I will continue to add more details. I will go more in depth as to how the piano examination developed my views of hard work. I may also talk about another example. Hard work is important where ever we look. If we look around us, there is no great thing that is not the pinnacle of hours of hard work. There is no reward without effort just like how there is no harvest without plowing. I think it is important that it is important to strongly illustrate my one and only point which is the strong connection between effort and reward and tie it to my experiences playing the piano since I was less than 5. One thing I would like to ask is if I need more than one example. I have seen other people’s work and want to know if I need more than my one piano example to support my ideas regarding hard work.
This holds true in life as students at one point or another will mail it in on their classes. I 'm sure many would change those efforts after spending weeks sweating on a factory floor. As the author states the lessons are nothing new yet have taught him the value of hard work.
Everyone grows up with a dream, but everyone will not get the opportunity to do so, being born in the financial situation of their family. In third world countries people struggle to make money on a daily basis. These people want more than what they have, but to attain those extra luxuries, they have to sacrifice their current possessions.This is not possible in as sacrificing what they have can lead to starvation. They want a better future but they need to be able to live on a daily basis. It is called investment in the future vs temporary happiness. Attaining security requires risking one’s belongings to earn liberty and equality in the future. Although temporary contentment must be sacrificed to attain security in life, it must be one’s
Akins, M. L. 1982 An analysis and Evaluation of selected methods for the beginning Private Piano student. PhD, Peabody College for Teachers, Vanderbilt University, USA.
Adversity enhances ones’ positive characteristics due to the provision of an ideal environment for establishing integrity and developing a mature mindset. This conclusion is valid because people tend to learn from their mistakes, thus gain a broader perspective on life.
In the beginning, Ni Kan, is “just as excited as [her] mother” about the idea of becoming a prodigy (749). She imagines herself in different roles and believes that once she has “become perfect,” (749) her parents will approve of her. However, her mother’s obsession becomes extreme when she is forced to take numerous tests on a daily basis. Ni Kan points out, “The tests [are] harder- multiplying numbers in my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London” (749). Eventually, her mother persuades her into taking piano lessons, which becomes the prime focus of determination.
I grew up in Yazoo City the middle out of nine children, and like the rest of my siblings I was almost entirely homeschooled. Music was possibly the most important subject, which incidentally happened to be the only one my mother didn’t teach. While my parents never actually said it, we all knew that it was a given that we would be taking piano lessons from around fourth grade to graduation. But when I was little I had zero interest in piano. I –for no reasons I can remember anymore- was very draw to violin and tried my hardest –without actually coming out and asking- to get my parents to let me take violin. As a six year-old my idea of “subtle hinting” was cutting out a violin shape from cardboard, and using a pencil as a bow to show my mom how well I “played”. In the end when I turned eight my
Believing that hard work pays off in the end is more than an idea to motivate an individual, it is the difference between the ability to strive for success or the breaking point for an individual who believes in “I can’t.” An individual who has the desire for success and believes he or she can achieve anything has the ability to go far. Success for college and beyond is established through the vital skills of motivation, responsibility, and strength. To master all three items is to find success.
A current experiment conducted by Eugenia Costa-Giomi (spring’99) showed incredible results with children and the effect piano lessons had on this group. The test made it clear that children who took piano lessons showed a greater increase in academic ability, than those who didn’t take them at all, or even children that dropped out of lessons. The test showed that after two years of instruction, the child who took the lessons showed great increase in general and spatial test scores. The students who dropped out and didn’t take lessons,...
Throughout my life, I have strived to be a hard-working individual when it comes to school, my job, and family work. I always try to work quickly and efficiently, and make my work the best that it can be. Perfectionism is a major part of my life and that is one of the driving forces behind my hard work. Sometimes the drive to be perfect can limit my results, but I try my hardest to keep it from restricting me. I always give one hundred percent when it comes to completing various tasks, and find pride in being a hard-worker.
What I fear the most is not being able to work out as hard as I use to do to have my talent because I believe that practicing made me a good soccer player and It was not a skill that I was born with. When I came to America i did not want to stop what I already started back home so I wanted to join my high school soccer team and keep practicing. Unfortunately, I went to school two weeks late and I missed the try out. I kept practicing with my brother for the first few month but after that I got bored I wanted a team that I can play with but I did not know any, and I didn’t look up for any soccer team because I was hopeless and thought that I lost all my skills and I have to start all over again. When I started reading The Willpower Instinct
However, it would be a big lie for me to say that my appreciation for playing the piano came immediately. From the time I was ten years old until I was twelve or thirteen, I absolutely detested Sunday afternoons. Of course by then, it was not called Sunday for me but the torturous "piano day." I had to practice all the morning before the lesson in the afternoon, and became totally exhausted in the evening. When it was finally over, I had great relief, as if an incredible amount of weight had been pulled from my shoulders.
I believe one person can make a difference. One person can speak out, one person can stand up for what they believe in, one person can take action and one person can change the lives of others. I believe with all my heart in the power of individual people to make the world a better place.
All of this implies a sound knowledge in music theory, ear training, musical analysis, music history, and proficiency in piano as the fundamental skills for most professional musicians. So far, I feel proud that the courses on these subjects have been a success for me. For example, I am thrilled not only for being able to play piano with fluency, but also because such proficiency is a key aspect of being a complete musician. In addition, I have experienced a pleasant surprise in music theory not only for understanding the subject matter we are covering, but also pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve with the fundamentals of music, going as far as to have the theory teacher assistant call me “ambitious” for my work. Finally, during the placement exams of ear training at the beginning of the semester, my tested skills were proficient enough to pass three semesters of the
Nine years ago, when I was in kindergarten, I always looked up to my sister as a role model. If she liked a certain food, I would like it; if she did something, I would want to do it also. So, it only made sense that when she started to play piano, I would want to play too. For months, I was like a mosquito to my dad, asking him when I could start playing piano. Two years later, my wish came true. When my sister went off to college, my dad asked me, “Do you want to start playing piano?”
Historically, the villains in Shakespeare’s plays, Othello in particular, derive much of their power from their ability to persuade other characters within the play to do anything within the villain’s will using speech as their main tool for exploitation. Shakespeare was an expert on using language to his advantage in his plays and quite deeply grasped the power of words. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago’s manipulative use of speech is an influential force that drives the play forward and leaves him no exception to the villain armed with a scheming tongue. But this powerful use of speech is not merely limited to literature; there are plenty of villains that endure in life and current times of real society. Perhaps one of the most recognized names of all of the villains is Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an Austrian born, German politician who went on to become the leader of the Nazi Socialist German Workers Party. He is most commonly noted for the rise of fascism that spread throughout Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust. But how could a man who is so cruel rally troupes peaking at around ten percent of Germany’s population to help him carry out his morbid conduct of genocide? Because of his prevailing and commanding use of speech and knew exactly how to say unerringly what the people wanted to hear. Over two-thousand years ago the Greek Philosopher, Aristotle, argued that there were three fundamental ways to persuade an audience that one is correct: these three devices are called ethos, logos, and pathos; the combination of these three entities is entitled “rhetoric.” Although Aristotle created them as three intrinsic proofs, they work together to attack the person being persuaded from all angles; theoretically, when combined...