What does success mean to you?
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Comment on the following in your blog post due by the start of class on Thursday, Sept.9th. This blog post is worth 15 course points.
1) What kept your attention about this presentation? Was it the delivery? The content? Be specfic and use details to discuss this point.
2) What things did this speaker incorporate in his speech to adapt to his audience?
3) Was it motivating to you? In what way? What are your thoughts to defining personal success?
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When I started thinking about what the word success means to me, I began to wonder of what its actual meaning is according to the dictionary. According to Google’s first definition of the word, success is “an event that accomplishes its intended purpose.” The following definition is “a state of prosperity or fame.” I found that this was very interesting because more often than not, these two definitions go hand in hand. Although I cannot deny that I would love to be in a state of prosperity or fame, neither of those would be my first choice of words to describe personal success.
If I were asked to envision success, the first word that would come to mind is ultimate happiness. Happiness is the very core of my personal meaning of success because as long as I am doing what I love around positive people then everything else will fall into place in terms of prosperity and fame. Success is having a constant flow of motivation to improve upon oneself and doing it full heartedly. What is great about this definition of success is that a person can achieve it at any point in his or her life. People often are under the impression that success is something that they need to spend all of their lives working on to maybe achieve one day in the far future. I believe that real success can be obtained at any point and therefore can only progress and get greater as the person becomes older.
1)I think what kept my attention was a combination of content and delivery. The speaker was genuinely sincere in his content and in his delivery. He believed in what he was saying which ultimately made his audience believe in his words. The content was completely universal and relatable. The speaker gives something to the audience, he answers the question that any audience ponders when hearing a speech, “What’s in it for me?” The audience gets helpful and inspirational tips on how to never give up on a dream.
2)In the clip, the speaker is speaking to students who may be between middle school and high school. He adapts his speech by using words and transitions they would understand. For example, he uses examples from the media such as Beyonce or some football stars, in order to captivate their attention and have them relate to the information he is giving them. Also, he uses hand gestures that add to the content of his speech, such as the bench pressing or holding the students head to the desk.
3)This speech was very motivating to me. I think it was less about outlining the exact steps I could possibly take to become successful and more about never giving up. It showed me that I have to start thinking more seriously about what I want to do in the future. It also showed me that no matter what I end up doing, if I keep working at it and take every opportunity that comes my way, I will be successful. I do not define personal success as having a job that makes the most money, instead I define it as taking every opportunity to get my dream job and being happy doing whatever it is I may be doing.
Immediately my attention was on the speaker because of his loud clear voice. His attention grabber drew me in also. I wanted to know what would happen at the end of that little story because the way he was telling it was in the shoes of a person in the audience. First unbelieving then realizing that there is a method to the madness, and when you want success as bad as you want to breath then you shall receive it. Everyone can talk about how to be successful but the way he delivered the message was what made this presentation stand out to me because he would adjust his voice to different parts of the speech. Always enthusiastic but would speak slower and quicker at different parts to drive his point home. And gestures were not overly used but just right to illustrate what he was saying and essentially help paint a picture in the audiences mind. He kept his audience in mind by including contemporary examples his audience could relate to, in order to connect to them better. He was speaking to young adults and he looked like he belonged. In a baseball cap and regular shirt, instead of a business suit that may have turn the audience off. This was extremely motivational to me. I have dreams and goals and I sometimes feel overwhelmed in my life and think, well maybe I should do sometimes else, easier and more practical and secure but this message just made me want to work as hard as I want to breath. I think anything you want to succeed at must be done with heart and you have to be willing to sacrifice. I relate it to being part of a team. You have to sacrifce time in order to get better,going to practices,taking good care of your body, which may mean not eating your favorite unhealthy foods so often. Because you have the desire to be the best at what you do so you sacrifice and do things with heart like, you would not show up on game day late, or without your equipment, or unready to perform and especially not complaining. You show up on game day with a winner’s attitude, as if you already have the trophy in hand, no doubt in your mind that there is any possible way you are unprepared, and you perform like a winner too.
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