Rhetorical Analysis Of Bernard Roth's The Achievement Habit

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Rhetorical Analysis Assignment of Roth’s The Achievement Habit
The second chapter of the book The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth, is titled Reasons Are Bullshit. Roth makes a key point to show you that reasons are nothing more than a excuse, that society demies acceptable. In the book, Roth talks about doing and trying to do things. Meaning if you give yourself a reason for not completing what you attempt to do that it’s just an excuse or bullshit. In chapter two Roth goes into a more in depth look at why reasons are bullshit. Though society finds that excuses and reasons are acceptable Roth through this chapter shows that they are meaningless and nothing more than an excuse. I believe that it 's true that reasons are no more than excuses …show more content…

To get past the obstacles in life you just need to “Do” not “Try”. Roth uses various other books in his written to show this point. In this chapter Roth has taught this his class for over twenty years, with trial and failure being a part of it. No matter what the “Reason” was, something always happened and changed that. This is shown in throughout the chapter, an example is. “Simply by noticing how reasons are used, you can gain insight into your own behavior and your relationship with others.”. This shows that by changing how you are can change what you do and what it can change in your relationship with …show more content…

Roth states that “Reasons just get in the way”. Though this is true reason sometimes do get in the way, that’s not always the case. Sometimes reasons are just that reason. In the dictionary reason is “a statement or fact that explains why something is the way it is, why someone does, thinks, or says something, or why someone behaves a certain way: a fact, condition, or situation that makes it proper or appropriate to do something, feel something, etc.: the power of the mind to think and understand in a logical way” Merriam-Webster Dictionary. So in part reason is an action not just an excuse as told so by Roth. You can’t control an action. Once an action is in motion it can’t be stopped. So if “Reasons are Bullshit” then how can you stop

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