The Movie Hoosiers: John Wooden's Pyramid Of Success

Success is something that all people strive for in life. Google defines success as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. John Wooden, one of the most successful basketball coaches of all time, defines success as peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. For you to understand of success I will explain the success from John Wooden’s pyramid of success, examples of success from the movie Hoosiers and our Skype with Bobby Plump, and success in my life.

To me success is accomplishing the goals, doing things the right way, and doing what you love.

Success is different for every person. For some people success is making a lot of money, for others it is living a just life. Some people view success as becoming the best in their career. Every person has their own view of what success is. Once one goal is accomplished, another is set. In the novel, Into the Wild, Chris McCandless was a young man who set many goals for himself. He achieved many of his goals through his life. Chris's idea of success was far different from other peoples. The concept of success, is the achievement of one's goals to satisfy oneself and society.

I feel that in order to achieve personal success in our society you need 3 key things. For one, you need to have determination. In our culture, we seem to have a universal ideology along the lines of “keep going, and you will succeed eventually.” I feel that these idea’s are incredibly true, and have been shown to be effective every time. A good example of this trait in one of the texts we read is in the Odyssey when Odysseus needed to get back home, and despite the odds being against him, he never gave up. He always kept going, and when the going got rough, he got back right up and started over again. Another trait is intelligence. Because we have gone away from warrior culture in modern times, academic success is more than mandatory to achieve

By definition, success is a person or thing that achieves desired aims or attains prosperity. How an individual reaches the point of success is “not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky- but all critical to making them who they are” (285). Throughout the book, Outliers by Malcom Gladwell, the pieces of the secret to success are put together. Three parts of success include pure luck, the amount of time and effort put into working to achieve your goal and where you come from.

Teenagers today face a number of problems, ranging from peer pressure and alcohol, to depression and rape. These severe topics can have an intense effect on a growing child, now, and in the future. Many modern teenagers face the daily struggles of harmful situations, and the good and bad in them. In The Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Charlie faces almost every bad situation imaginable, in a heart breaking and realistic coming of age story. Charlie does not have the grandest high school experience, but the book represents the harsh and cruel reality of what so many students face today. Charlie, also being on the unclear side of what he was experiencing, was also hit hard with the outcomes of his actions. Drugs, alcohol, and sexual interaction contributed to the difficult standards that are held to growing students, in their fight to fit in. Every teen has faced the harsh reality of peer pressure and abuse, which takes a harsh effect on its victims. In the beginning of the story, Charlie faces the death of one of his friend Michael, to suicide. Starting the beginning of Charlie?s coming of age story, also known as a freshman in high school. Throughout the book, peer pressure, substance abuse, the fight to be normal, and the hope to have friends in the first place pushed Charlie to take the wrong path in some situations. Charlie?s coming of age story represents the teenage life today

Hoosiers is a film about second chances. Redemption is given to a short tempered coach, who was issued a lifetime suspension by the NCAA for physically assaulting a player, and a former star player- turned town drunk. These two defeat their odds by taking a small town high school basketball team from being just 15 and 10, all the way to the state championship. In my review, I’ll attempt to explain how this coach matches up against Kouzes and Posner’s “Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.”

Growing up in a small town, it is encouraging to see successful people stem from the same place. Success can be defined in different ways. Most people from my town consider moving to a bigger city and never coming back a success. My cheer coach, Kimberly Truitt, is living proof that success can be defined as growing as a person and overcoming hardships. As a teenager, she atteneded the very same high school that I currently attend, Abbeville High School, where she was also a varsity cheerleader. Ms. Truitt grduated in YEAR and took the first step in becoming what is traditionaly considered a successful person in our town. She went to college in a different state, Florida A & M University. While attending Florida A & M, she pledged Delta Sigma

Success is such a strong word for me, but after reading the novel, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, by Westley Moore, I came to the conclusion what success really means to me. “The Other Wes Moore” is about the lives of two men with similar neighborhoods, names and growing up in the wrong direction. Westley struggle with academics and behavior; so he was sent to Valley Forge Military School. He ends up as an army officer, a graduate of John Hopkins University, and a White House fellow. Wes struggle financially, which led him to sell drugs, a thief, and a convicted killer. The choice that they make determines the encounters that they deal with. The important factors that caused Westley to become successful in life while

Having the desire to be successful is one thing but without the doing the little things you will never get there. Successful people are committed to doing something every single day. Regardless of what is going on in their lives they work on their craft. They overcome the daily battle between procrastination and motivation. Every day, most people have a list of things they want to do; need to do; or should do; and what they don’t want to do. It’s these daily choices that are influenced by our discipline and

Everyone is looking to succeed, some people just do not seem to understand how. Success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. In John Wooden’s novel, They Call Me Coach, he uses his own experiences to inspire coaches and players all across America. Although Wooden had many wins throughout his career, nevertheless, he also suffered many losses. Overall, though, he was one of the most successful coaches/players of all time, being elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and a coach. This novel provides specific examples of Wooden’s pyramid to success, which makes it a great read for anyone looking to conquer their goals, not just in sports, but in life.

What is success? Society has evolved so drastically that the answer to this question isn’t very simple. Depending on social status or moral beliefs, viewpoints vary. Success is demonstrated in Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, “The Shift” from The Road To Character by David Brooks, “Purpose” from Angela Duckworth’s Grit, and personal interviews with Lynn Harder and Nanci Bush. Unbroken is a biography written by Laura Hillenbrand about Louis Zamperini. Louis Zamperini, known as Louie, was an Olympic runner who enlisted in the Army Air Corps during WWll and ended up enduring many hardships. Similar to Louie’s story, the chapter “Purpose” contains multiple anecdotes, illustrated by Duckworth, of others who have experienced deprivations. In

Jon Urbana is a successful Denver, Colorado native. His success story is one that his close friends and family are know about. However, there are some new fans that do not know that he was formally an athlete that played lacrosse for Villanova University. His success on the lacrosse team paved the way for further success in his life. Paving the way for further success is something that he shares with his kids at the Next Level Lacrosse Camp. He is the co-founder of the summer training camp that teaches kids to sharpen their lacrosse skills on the field. Certainly, his success story is backed by his strong interest in charity work, music, photography. Find out more about Jon Urbana on social media sites like Twitter or Facebook.

As it is commonly used, the word "success" is sometimes synonymous with another word — "winning." Success is beating the other guy and getting the big salary. Success is what happens when other people think you're a success or when you can convince them of it.

A success can be important or you can think that you made a succcess. Success can be like if a person couldn’t shoot and then they practiced for a winning shot then that winning goal was a success.Or if a person spiked the volleyball and got the final point for the team that was a acomplishmen. If a football member got a touchdown and won for the team that was also a success. A success can be made up or real for example someone could tell you they got the winning piont then another person they actually got the winning point that can be a made up success.