Ethos, Pathos And Actions In Bernard Roth's The Achievement Habit

When we meet others who may be able to perform a simple task seemingly well, we feel threatened, and act through envy, hurting others in the process. Most importantly, we end up hurting ourselves, for trying to aim for perfection when it doesn’t exist. As I grew up, my aspirations of being the perfect student were met with unsatisfactory results. At one point, if I were to mess up for any reason, I felt there’d been no need to continue as I felt that I’d failed myself. However, the road to perfection became a narrow path to failure. Over time, I realized that it’s perfectly okay to make mistakes; that we have the ability to learn from them and take those lessons and apply them in the future. As I began to let go of any frustrations regarding not achieving as much as all of the others, I came to the conclusion that the only competition worth having is with myself. Learning to use my past self as a reason to become a better person. I aspire to attend Lynn University as a graduate student looking to further my knowledge and feed my many curiosities on the human mind and learn from how culture and context can bring about the set personalities of others and shape their

Murray employs the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos and logos throughout the essay. The pathos, or pathetic appeal, of the argument is based on what Murray believes is society’s misalignment of understanding when it comes to propelling that all youth prepare to attend college. He makes the claim that a student with a natural liking for the rigorous abilities that it takes to complete a college education, and whose test scores indicate the threshold for college readiness, is more likely to succeed than an individual who doesn’t enjoy the work and who also tests low (PARAGRAPH 11). And because of this misalignment, those low testing, students are being set up to fail. The essay’s ethical appeal suggests that guidance counselors, teacher, political figures and others with a vested interest in a student’s progress, should do more to help students understand what their strengths are and that college is not always the best route for them to take (PARAGRAPH 41). Lastly, the appeal to logos, or the logical appeal is the basis of

Murray applies the rhetorical appeals of pathos, ethos, and logos throughout the essay. His rhetorical appeal on pathos is used to help promote his view on society’s misalignment of understanding that all youth should be prepared to attend college. He argues that a student who has the natural abilities for liking the stringent work it takes to complete a college education, and whose SAT scores meets the threshold for college readiness, is more likely to succeed than a student that does not have those same abilities. Because these student s are grouped as one and are all given one option the students who do not have those abilities are being set up to fail ( Murray 227). Murray’s ethos appeal propose that guidance counselors and others with a vested interest in a student’s should take heed to the student’s strengths and they may realize college is not the best option. Murray argues, “Guidance counselors and parents who automatically encourage young people to go to college straight out of high school regardless of their skills and interests are being thoughtless about the best interests of young people in

In the book, The Achievement Habit, by Bernard Roth, chapter two reasons are bullshit, he gives multiple examples on ethos, logos, and pathos. Logos which is the logical appeal, ethos are the ethical appeal, and pathos which is the emotional appeal to the reader. In chapter two, reasons are bullshit the author talks about the reasons people give are pointless. He also states that people should stop giving excuses. That any kind of excuse, besides being sick or a death in the family, should not be accepted. This book by Bernard Roth is intended for the audience of college students. I believe that chapter two is a very important chapter for college students. Most college students use excuses for a lot of things, even things that they don’t need

All humans have dreams and goals for their future that they wish to someday turn into reality. Dreams are different for every person, and some dreams are greater and grander than others, but they are all similar in that humans live for dreams because humans innately crave a better tomorrow. While many people do achieve their ultimate goals within their lifetimes, some people have unattainable dreams that are destined for failure. Two quintessential American novels, The Great Gatsby and the Catcher in the Rye, recount the stories of two hopeful young men with lofty plans, Jay Gatsby and Holden Caulfield. Both of these utopian young men possess impossible, unreachable dreams; Gatsby desires to rewind his life so that he may enjoy it with

Everybody has hopes and desires that they set for themselves. Some are very simple and easily accomplishable. However, most people like to aim high, and by doing this they’re setting themselves up for failure. A man’s head can create inconceivable ideals for what their life should be like, and a man’s heart can aspire for these outrageous designs. More often than not, these goals are never reached for any of a number of reasons.

In the first two chapters of the book The Achievement Habit, Bernard Roth talks about how “nothing is what you think it is” (Roth 14) and “reasons are bullshit” (Roth 37). Bernard Roth has been a professor for many years and in his book, he directs his message to college students and young adults. He introduces a perspective for life and gives other tips along the way in the first chapter. In the next chapter of the book he explains how reasons are prettied up excuses and how one must be confident in their actions. Throughout both chapters Roth tries to persuade young adults to open their mind and look at things with a different viewpoint. Roth uses the rhetorical approach of pathos and ethos very well, but his logical reasoning

Do you know the definition of insanity? It’s “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Many people roll through life thinking like this, thinking that what they do is a waste of their lives by expecting change yet never taking action. But there is a solution in Jack Canfield’s and Kent Healy’s book. The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be “is a road map whether your goal is to become a better student, athlete, start a business, make millions of dollars, or simply find guidance or direction”. I believe that Canfield and Healy accomplish this by giving advice for certain situations and advice to keep you on track to success through their success principles.

In comparison, the dealing with things that are going wrong” (The Arbinger Institute, 16). This quote relates to me because if I want to change or in order for Cory to change we have to get the influence of people to help us to do the right things. For example, this year the right step for me to do with the help of Ms. Collins is that she will help me apply for the colleges or universities I want to be in, so that I could be one step closer to the future life I want to be in. That is a choice that honors the sense because is an action that I feel is the best for me and is the right choice. It will help me get an opportunity for a better college and be successful in my future life because I need all the knowledge I can obtain to be successful in the career I want to be. I want to graduate from High School with a good GPA and get accepted into CSU or CU Denver because I know those schools will help me get into medical

The author of the book The Achievement Habit, Dr. Bernard Roth, presents a well structured argument about the ability to achieve, and how the world is perceived differently by everyone, which means it is a conscious decision to react negatively to conflict, or on the contrary, look at the situation with a different mindset and not see it as conflict at all. While being the author of this very popular book, Dr. Roth has been a Stanford Professor for over fifty years; at Stanford, he teaches a class on achieving which pertains to a lot of his stories in the book. Roth portrays his book as a series of events that occurred to him personally and establishes pathos, logos, and ethos in the first two chapters of his book as he describes how the events relate to his theories.

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality. ~Wayne Dyer

In Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe as well as in the real world, it is possible to recognize the dangers in promoting unattainable perfection in masking your life and being unsatisfied with your life. Tyler uses the idea of masking your life in order to highlight why trying to achieve perfection can be dangerous. The author illustrates the theme by using Lucy and the way in which she masks her life from everyone around her. When questioning Lucy's truthfulness about her new dress, Ian thinks, “She hadn't bought that dress at all.

This may seem impossible because we are all human, no? He circles back to his first assertion that we should all “seek perfection”. Though he believes that perfection is a goal we should all try to achieve, he understands that mistakes happen. It’s not that we can’t fail though, it’s that trying our best and doing the bare minimum has become a popular trend. We have given up on growing and becoming better. We have stopped trying to make the margin of mistake smaller and eliminate mess ups and miscalculations. This attitude of trying to complete something rather than finishing something has flooded the masses. It has created a world full of “tryers” and marginalized the “doers”. When Jon graded his drivers and most ask him why his class is so difficult. Like c’mon it’s just driving, right? Jon knows that a slight imperfection can be the difference between a child dead or a child alive; a driver dead or a driver alive. He uses a combination of cold hard facts and the rhetorical device logos to show his listeners the drawbacks of tiny mistakes. He elegantly floats over and changes the subject from fact to and logos, to ethos. By making this transition we receive quite an inspirational view of his message. In the middle of his speech he says, “So how do we change?

In Bernard's novel the Achievement habit he uses experiences to prove statements. One of those statements "Nothing is what you think it is" is being described by many situations to describe that nothing really is what we probably think it is.These statements are all provided in this book to eventually persuade readers on how to change their lives. The situations being used come from those studying at Stanford University and whom are participating in the design thinking. Due to the use of design thinking, society, and personal experiences Roth's statement "Nothing is what you think it is" succeeds and also fails.