When artists win Grammys, the first things they usually thank are their parents, God, and their record label, however, the piece that artists forget to show thanks to the is luck. Luck is the success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions. The result of individual effort and talent doesn’t play as big as a role as outside influences and communities because luck is the most important factor in every success story.
The effort of an individual is important in some aspects when it comes to personal motivation and interests. To become successful in a specific industry, or field, one has to have a love or a passion for it. For example, a rapper can’t become successful in the rap industry without
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Outside influences can range anywhere from resources to having connections with people to even environment. Beyonce Knowles, international celebrity, a singer, dancer, actress, fashion designer, entrepreneur, the list can go on for ages. But how did she get there? Of course her own talents contributed to her fame, however, who she knew and her availability to resources and the people who surrounded her played a larger role. For starters Beyonce was in an trio girl-group, Destiny’s Child, where she was the lead singer and the main face of the girl group. Not hard to become when you’re father, Matthew Knowles, is the manager of the girl group. This is an outside influence, being related to the manager, the family relationship, needless to say led favoritism and special treatment. Along with relationships, another outside factor is the resources that Beyonce had available. Matthew Knowles, also with being the manager of Destiny’s Child, was the owner of his own record label, Music World Entertainment. Beyonce was able to have personalized lessons and advice to help her with singing and recording music and even performance skills, coming from a manager as well as an entrepreneur in the music industry. A little less known than Beyonce, the “Termites Experiment,” Lewis Terman gave IQ tests to elementary students and the one who scored the …show more content…
Luck is a factor that can’t be controlled by people and is only out of chance. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropists, had some of the luckiest opportunities to come his way. To begin with Gates was sent to Lakeside High School, that had access to a time-sharing terminal for computers. Bill Gates also was able to live walking distance away from the University of Washington that just so happens to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. He also was able to spend spring term writing code thanks to a technology company, TRW and Bud Pembroke (pg 54.) The combination of these three opportunities along with a rush of other lucky events all contributed to his success. Bill Gates was not able to control the series of opportunities that came his way, it was all based on chance. Another story that was solely on chance is my mom’s. Looking to pursue her career in social work, Janine Taylor, applied to Chicago State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, and a few other colleges. While Chicago State University declined her, UIC accepted her and that was the school she attended. A few weeks after getting accepted into the University of Illinois, Chicago State University called, Janine doesn’t clearly remember the conversation, however she does remember the college “saying something about there being a mix up and there’
If someone wants to succeed in life and stay recognized by superiors, then he or she ought to appear hardworking. A person begins with setting goals. There are two categories, the first, “be” goals and the second, “do” goals. In other words, ask yourself, "What to be?" or "What to achieve?" Four categories of goals consist of wealth, health, relationships, and self-fulfillment which equal success. Working diligently to finish a task demonstrates how to live a successful life. Given these points, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller and Harriet Tubman, all exceptional achievers, found that prosperity undoubtedly comes along for everyone who perseveres.
The inspiring memoir, Discovering Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore teaches the reader many life lessons, which are included in the themes of the memoir. This first example of Wes Moore’s life teachings is “But hard work and putting in the effort to be good at something matters” (Moore 142). This quote from Wes Moore is important to me because when I work hard and put in my best effort I succeed immensely. When I read this fragment of Discovering Wes Moore, I am reminded that everything that I do, whether it is academic studies, dance, soccer, or piano, it should be done with my best exertion. If you are diligent with your work and doing your best, you will succeed and achieve greatness throughout life. One connection I have with this statement
In this day and age, pop music dominates the airwaves at every turn. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, and many are commonplace names among teenagers and younger demographics not only in the United States, but all around the world. The United States has accepted the position of international, cultural role model long ago, dating back to the 1950’s when rock and roll caught fire as a hybrid of blues, country, and jazz and spread to the rest of the world almost infectiously. Since then, every major artist that comes out of the United States has easily become a global icon, regardless of the language or nationality of their adoring fans. However, one could conceive that this glamorized version of music comes less from the soul of the artist and is merely born of fiscal ambitions and visions of grandeur. The point made previously is not to critique any pop icon’s talent, which clearly they have proved to possess an abundance of it to keep the public swooning at their every whim, but instead, to show that there are musicians out there producing beautiful music without the threat of corruption and adherence to mainstream culture.
The music industry is a multibillion dollar industry that spans across all races, genders and genres throughout the world. New musical boundaries are being tested across all of these areas each year. However, one would argue that just testing the boundaries are not good enough and that major changes regarding diversity in the music industry should be made that address all inequalities. Research shows that many organizations and industries have addressed the issue of diversity; however the music industry has not done enough to expose its listeners to all of its diverse facets. This paper will explore diversity in the music industry as it pertains to race, gender and genre.
In Outliers, Gladwell illustrates the life of a lawyer named Joe Flom, and shows three reasons why he became one of the most successful lawyers. One of them was “The importance of being Jewish” (121-122). Gladwell emphasizes that Flom couldn’t work at big firms because he was Jewish, and had to handle proxy wars which big firms didn’t do at that time, but he got to the top because he was one of the few lawyers who were proficient at proxy wars when it became popular (125-129). My evidence’s point is that a disadvantage is turned into an advantage as time passes. Joe Flom wasn’t lucky because he is Jewish and couldn’t work at big firms, but at the same time, he was lucky because he is Jewish and had a chance to train himself in proxy wars. If Joe Flom got discouraged by his disadvantages in his career, he wouldn’t become a successful lawyer. In other words, my evidence believes that individuals can turn their unluckiness into luckiness, or luckiness to unluckiness depending on their actions. With racial discriminations like that at that time, we can assume that there would be many Jewish lawyers who we can say had the same luck as Joe Flom got discouraged, or many other individuals who didn’t choose that profession because they knew they would be discriminated against, and ended up in other careers. Ultimately, my evidence shows that Joe Flom not only turned his unluckiness into luckiness, but he elevated
The motivation to be successful is very powerful. Some people will work twelve hours a day, seven days a week in order to feel successful. These people will work so
In the excerpt of Sharpshooter Blues, Hydro is saved by luck when the store he works in is being robbed. While in the store, Hydro was lucky to not be shot while the store was being robbed. Like Hydro, almost everyone experiences some kind of luck in the everyday life whether it is a small or large amount of luck. In my life, I experience luck ranging from guessing on my accounting tests or having a great bounce on my drive while playing golf, but luck is not always good. Often, luck is not on my side especially on a day at the golf course when my golf balls always seem to take a bad bounce into the water. I have had many experiences on the golf course and while hunting that are extremely lucky. One moment in particular stands out to me the
Rath states that “talent times investment equals strength (p. 20).” To me this is a very true statement. You might have the talent to do something but if you are not going to invest your time to better yourself then you will not be better yourself. This could also be said for having the drive to do something but without the talent in the task you cannot truly be the best at the task. The tool that helped us determine our strengths via the online assessment, tied into the previous quote by Rath. It asked you questions about both your talents, what you were good at, and it asked how you wo...
Patrick Combs' book, Majoring in Success, argues that one must find their passion in order to become successful by enforcing that: it is important to admit one’s interests to find out what they like to do, it is beneficial to find one’s true aspirations so that they can narrow down their interests, it is helpful too realize that there are many jobs related to one’s interests so they can find the right job, and it is necessary that one faces their fears so they can be successful. I agree with Comb's argument that it is essential for one to determine their passions in order to gain success because I think that one will never truley be "successful," unless they are happy with what they are doing with their lives. I found gis argument and teaching to be inspriational because they have taught me that in order to succeed failure is bound to happen along the way.
"Luck" is a short story by the brilliant American novelist Mark Twain. In this story, readers learn about the life of Scoresby, a military hero, through the depiction of a clergyman who was once an instructor in a military academy. This was actually a story within another story. As a matter of fact, an unnamed narrator retells the story he once heard from the clergyman. This story is told in the first person point of view. In the first person point of view, the narrator participates in the
Passion for Family, Community, Business, Technology and Intellectual growth are what motivate me on the daily basis. These are vital parts that have contributed to framing me into the person I’ve become. They have also shaped my short-term and long-term goals in life. It’s critical for one to have a vision for their life and what they anticipate to accomplish. Without a vision or desire there is no hope for one to continue and to purse anything. My experiences with in my passions have helped me aligned my vision for my life. They have given me the valuable knowledge that have set me up for success to get to this point in life.
temper their need for public acclaim and financial reward with strong intrinsic motivations” (George, Sims, McLean, & Mayer, 2007).
Unless mentally-obstructed by nature, I don’t agree that luck plays a significant part in the people we become and our ability to live the good life, we are responsible for achieving happiness and overcoming obstacles that momentarily prevents us from that state. Indeed, luck has a great influence in obtaining the goals and desires in one’s lives but that does not necessary mean that a good life cannot be accomplished without it. Although, luck enhances the chance to obtain pleasure at a faster and constant rate it is not responsible for achieving a good life in which happiness is achieved through sophisticated pleasure or appetite, knowledge and virtue. For Claudia Card, the opportunities to become a good person, and therefore having a good
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It has become common these days to say that hard work and money go together, the more hard work you put in, the more money you make; however, if we step away from these false assumptions, we’ll be able to see that the relationship between hard work and passion is still alive. We have seen this relationship in the past in the form of inventions, and we still see it today in the determination of the passionate. Society has evolved so much and is continuing as new advancements arise and show us the different forms of hard work and the successful results that come with it. Hard work can be defined to as something as simple as getting basic education , or to the complexity of things such as construction of the greatest