Tall Poppy Syndrome Analysis

The blossomed butterfly, finally freed from its lecture filled, finals stressing, late night partying, early morning madness cocoon, is ready to take on the world head on with so much energy and bravado. Its eagerness to make a mark in like, but expresses a conceited sense of entitlement, as though the world revolve around it. The butterfly or butterflies are the college graduates entering the workforce. They reveal their expectations on how their lives will be centered on finding themselves as they pursue individualized goals and fulfillment. These goals, however, are naturally unrealistic, In David Brooks article, “It’s Not About You”, he explains this discrepancy, on how college grads enter an unstable job market that will require them to forget self-fulfillment until they spend at least a decade finding their prominent role in life. Brian Williams article, “ Enough About You” correlates with Brook’s article. It illustrates how technology shows individuals what best interest and suits them. How the media exaggerates the success of others, making one want to emulate that success without facing the hardship of the journey to that success. Due to this, individuals such as college grads are wrapped in their own personal “bubbles” and will never achieve the true purpose of life.

This quote presents the social characteristic of society creating standards, judging, and putting people down. Whether it is parents punishing their children for not being “good enough” or “smart enough”; or for anyone who is trying hard to be good enough and succeed cant accomplish that with the standards that are required.

Success is measured differently by every person and each and every culture. The journey to success in most cultures, however, is generally idealized in the same way: one person working harder than everyone else to achieve his or her goal with their own merits as their only advantage. In Outliers: The Story of Success, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, argues about how wrong that ideology is and the truth behind successful people. Throughout his guide, Gladwell employs the help of many argumentative techniques to convince the reader of his message.

“When I encounter people who try to make me feel lesser than an equal, I don't argue. My equality is not up for debate, it is an implicit truth.” (Rachel Wolchin).

Conformity or in this case compliance with standards of others and being afraid of being an individual plays a major role with bystanders especially in groups of people. For example, a smoke filled room experiment was tested once with a young man by himself and then again with the same person but in a group. The first time this young man saw the smoke he immediately went looking for help shouting and jumping to get the receptionist’s attention, but the second time when more people were added to the room or “experiment” they all acknowledged the smoke but did nothing. The first time the young man wanted to get help but when a group was added he conformed to that group and did nothing. The same thing happens in real situations like the famous 1964 Kitty Genovese murder and even the 2010 heroic homeless man murder both were witnessed by many, yet no one did

Success comes from self-determination, motivation, and hard work – that was the message I received from reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell helped me understand that the outliers mentioned in the book didn’t gain their success easily. Some may have had lucky opportunities and where born in the right year, but they had to work hard, they were smart, and out of their achievements, they made an impact on society. Prior to reading Outliers, I was lost among the success of others because I thought these people came from wealthy families, which meant they had a head start, but I was wrong. Success has a different meaning to everyone, but the commonalities of success are the advantages and opportunities given to us.

We live in a general public where it is hard to conflict with the standard. Each of us are influenced to act a specific way, or look a specific route keeping in mind the end goal to be acknowledged. For example, youngsters may confront peer strain to do certain exercises that may not be all in all correct to them, but rather do it in any case, since they need to fit in. In any case, this weight of congruity isn't just present in reality, it can be found in writing also. The story "St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell delineates that with a specific end goal to adjust to society, people desert their benevolence and empathy and end up plainly egotistical and passionless.

“What terrifies me most is how we foam at the mouth with envy when others succeed but sigh in relief when they are failing our struggle to celebrate each other is what's proven most difficult in being human” ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

The Humbling of Prideful Women It has been said that God will humble those who refuse to humble themselves. This certainly seems to be the case for protagonists in the short Stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. “The Necklace” tells the story of Mathilde, a French woman living in the early 1900s, whose pride drives her insatiable materialistic nature and transforms her into her own antagonist through a journey of self-destruction. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” introduces us to a Southern Grandmother whose prideful nature ultimately proves to be her fatal flaw during an encounter with the antagonist known as “The Misfit”. Despite the vastly different settings and events of these

An individual who is cognizant are capable of determining one’s psychological states exuded during any particular circumstance. Adults who augment such necessary cordial competencies will discern, elucidate, and justify such psychological states occurring internally and in others. Comprehension is pivotal for the regulation of one’s psychological states. The primary objective of writing this essay is to written with the prime intent on how the decisions of other counterfactual thinking influences the experience of envy. Envy is self-pernicious due to the inability to cherish one’s exceptional bestowed treasures. An example of envy includes the following: you have been working for a company as a business administrator for fifteen years with no capability to advance in an eminent status in the job setting while a recent hire who only has been working for the company for only one year manages to become the corporate executive officer. It is a frustrating experience that can lead to both a desire that the other loses the advantage and a motivation to improve oneself (Parrott & Smith, 1993; Smith & Kim, 2007; Van de Ven, Zeelenberg, & Pieters, 2009). Mental images occurring in the cognitive process for any alterations for the previous circumstances influence ones psychological

How the world defines success varies from one's personal achievements and the culture from which that motivation to succeed grows. What is to say the worlds greatest achievement is the ability to praise the very accomplishment of others, or perhaps its biggest atrocity. The success of others is often viewed not in their achievement that originally made them a successor, but what that prosperity has done. What is the atrocity of success is not its foundation, but the multitude of fortune’s it might bring. Such fortunes include money, popularity, and power. No “successful” person is absent of these staples to their success. Perhaps what is worse is how success, in its most prevalent form, creates sentiments of exclusivism.

Many people around the earth feel that they are superior compared to others. They believe that they are the greater race, religion or other type of group. This is obviously very wrong. Everybody is capable of doing great things if they are treated well and equally, because if they are they will be motivated and have tools for success. Dr. King is quick to point out that when people are treated poorly and differently they feel alone and exiled.

In the passage, Margaret Mead states that Americans tend to celebrate other people’s success far than those people who are close at hand as a threat. As I have read the author’s analysis I noticed that there is some positive and negative statement. There are some circumstances were Americans feel jealous, insecure, competitive and anxious around people’s success. Most of the time, when someone close to you like a family member , a close friend and a co-worker become successful we tend to feel jealous and we start seeing them as a threat. On the other hand, people who’s far away from us or have a different career as we are. We congratulate them, praise them, support them with all our heart without bitterness and we truly celebrate their success. It is a confusing thing but real.

In early child life and according to the VALS, I grew up in the survivors’ category. At the time it was my dad taking care of a four year old boy and three year old twins, all of us living in my dad’s green Ford Aero Star. Now that I became an adult and looking back, I don’t regret any of it or don’t wish things were different because, it has taught me a lesson of appreciation and has granted me a growth mindset. Unfortunately, in Twichells’s editorial, I am disposed in the trendy pile of the strivers class, I dislike this because by definition this class values money as success but not by principle or morals. On the bright side, I personally am happy to announce I am also a combination of the fulfilled, believers, and the makers groups. I

New Zealanders are seen as people who live a very privileged life with Durney (2012) article stating that “…being a New Zealander opens the [door] to a life of privilege”. This is essay will look at what privilege really means and will explore the evidence supporting Durney’s statement. Privilege can be determined by what makes for a good life, Durney believes our privileges as New Zealanders are that; we are free from the crush of humanity, we are free to question our faith, we are able to raise a family and to raise them healthy and well educated, we can have our health issues tended to by skilled and compassionate professionals and as New Zealanders, and we pride and honour ourselves on providing for and continuing to sustain safe communities. Privilege is equal across the country and therefore all New Zealanders can be considered privileged in support of Durney’s strong suggested attitude. This essay will make it evident that being a New Zealander does open the [door] to a life of privilege.