Better life. Jim Rohn

Living an exceptional life

Jim Rohn offers some advice based on his own experience. He dropped out of college at the age of 19 and changed his philosophy of life at the age of 25 thanks to his friend that allowed him to join to his company.

Jim expresses that the 21th century is the best considering that everything is so easy; for example, there are airplanes and other means of communication. Moreover, this century provides many opportunities and competition. He provides some advice to be successful in life:

1.    You need more than one skill. Jim tells people to always find customers and good people to work together.

2.    It is better to learn more than one language. It would add an extra million to your fortune. Give this as a gift to your children.

3.    Learn the simple economic formula that works for everybody. You get paid for bringing value to the market place. You should engage in activities that make yourself better.

“Success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person”

Five fundamentals would increase your value. They are related to how you thing, feel and do things in your everyday lives.

1.    Personal philosophy: How to feel about the past. Your philosophy has to be related with a change of mind. Your experiences help you to minimize dangers and maximize opportunities by learning to do things right from doing things wrong the first time.

2.    Attitude: How you feel about the future. You should learn of your mistakes and use them as forward inspiration. Set goals; put everything on your list: write all the things you want to do in the future.

3.    Activity: Jims reminds you to imagine all the possibilities. Imagination and faith have to be deposited in activity or it is wasted. Go to work and build a career.

4.    Results: Jim advices to learn to measure progress. Success is a numbers game, so you should learn a new concept each year.

5.    Lifestyle: you should learn to live well. The ultimate essence of life is learning to live a good life.

•  Productivity
• Good friends
• Your heritage
• Spirituality
• Take special care of the inner circle (family, close friends)

Living an exceptional life

People always try to be successful in life. Therefore, people read books, watch movies, and go to talks that teach about success. However, success can be hard to achieve due to unexpected issues that can occur. Many times people can have large knowledge, experiences in many different situations, and moral support from love ones. But, humans cannot control external situations like the loss of love ones, natural disasters, and diseases, which can limit the success of a person in one way or another. There is no one secret formula for success.

People are not perfect, but they try not to make mistakes. Nevertheless, in many times people make mistakes, and the best they can do is to learn from them and move on. Learning from mistakes, and getting up from them can be hard. After people fail in something, they just focused on what they did wrong, but in many times, they do not think what they could have done better.

Success is about the attitude of the person, and nothing else, because everything comes from the person’s attitude. If one is positive, the person will try to get educated, to meet successful people, to be productive, and to balance social life with work. In the other hand, if one is negative, the person will get stuck after a failure, they will not try enough to build the network, to get more knowledge, and they will follow conformity most of the times.

Nowadays, in the 21st Century, people can take advantage of new technology to get more information about current events, keep communicated with friends, and learn about new cultures. Nonetheless, people have to be careful with technology, because it can make people slaves of social networks, and lazy when doing certain tasks. For example, a student in high school that do not go to the library anymore, instead the student search in the internet.

In conclusion, to live an exceptional life, one can do specific things to try to be successful. Nevertheless, doing these things do not guarantee that one will be successful, because every situation is different, and there are external factors that harms success. There is no magic formula for everybody to have an exceptional life, because the term success is very subjective, and is not measurable. Thus, every person can consider success differently, and for everybody the achievement of success has more or less value than others. However, the most important things are to get up after a failure and keep trying numberless times; to be positive; to maintain the love ones close; and to be perseverant in all situations.

Exercise W44
1. There are different opinions whether apes can communicate or not. Since these animals do not have an apparatus for talking as humans beings, they look for other means to communicate.

According to the reading, apes have the ability to understand language at a very minimum level, just as a little child can use linguistic responses. However, the lecture indicates that there is not enough research that shows that apes can communicate since the use of language has to be creatively and has to be able to take turns in conversation.

The reading suggests that koko, a lowland gorilla, has showed to differentiate between many sounds. In the same way, a male companion of koko´s also learned to discriminate them. Moreover, a study indicates that an adult chimpanzee can use keyboard of symbols, even better than a young child. The lecture mentions that people skeptical of ape communication say believers are blinded by attachments.

Finally, the lecture expresses that it is necessary to make a brain scan so the dispute generated about the ability of apes to communicate might be solved.

The best teacher is one who is very knowledgeable about the subject matter

There are many characteristics teachers should have to do their job well. It is important for teachers to master the subject matter since they are responsible for the education they are given to others. As a result, they have to study permanently since everything changes constantly. Without a doubt, the best teacher is the one who is very knowledgeable about the subject matter for many reasons. 

It is easy for students to understand about a subject matter if the teacher knows every aspect of it. For example, once I asked a teacher some definitions related to the topic he was explaining that he could not answer. As a result, I barely understand the subject matter and I got confused when I took the exam.

 

A teacher who is very knowledgeable about the subject matter gives the students the opportunity to learn more about it. A teacher who is well-educated in the subject teaches the students not only the basic about it but also details concerning a topic that enriches the student’s education. For instance, a teacher can give examples and updated information about a matter so students could take advantage of all that knowledge.

Knowledgeable teachers motivate the students to study and learn more by themselves. They inspired the students to look up for more information about the topic and to study permanently because they want the students to learn the best way. Since teachers know about the topic, they encourage the students to learn as much as possible to master the subject as they do.

In conclusion, there are many reasons why the best teacher is the one who is very knowledgeable in the subject matter. Students can have the opportunity to learn widely about a topic and being encouraged to learn more at home. No matter the topic students are learning, having a teacher that masters the theory of it will guarantee a good education for them.