In this box, I want you to picture and write down or draw your dream. What do you want
to be? What do you want to have?
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Creativity
Creativity isn’t just for the arts…In business, engineering, science & medicine,
those at the top are creative. They think outside the box and do new things.
Donald Trump even wrote a book called “The Art of the Deal.”
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The ability to think and figure things out
Thinking and figuring things out isn’t just for science. Creating a dance routine
requires planning and thinking. Writing requires planning and thinking ahead.
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The ability to self-teach
When you’re close to the top or at the top of your profession, there’s no longer
anyone around to teach you what you need to know next. Those who make it to the
top and stay there are the ones who figure out what they need to learn next and
learn it on their own. This is especially true for someone setting out to create
something that’s never been done before!
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A positive attitude
Bloom where you are planted. I’m sure this class isn’t where you want to be or what
you want to be doing with your time…..But, there comes a time in life when you have
to decide what kind of person you are going to be-Are you the type to gripe and
complain the whole time? Or are you the type to make the best of the situation and
find a way to use it to your benefit?
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade-and sell it!
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Confidence
Some people just naturally have this, but most of us need to build it….And we build
it through hard work, accomplishments and conquering fears
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Drive
Successful people know what they want, set their goals and aim high… They want it
badly and work very hard to get it!
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Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could
read.
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As a boy Thomas Edison was told by his teachers that he was too stupid to learn
anything.
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Werner von Braun flunked ninth grade algebra. He was one of our most important
rocket developers from 1930-1970.
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Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.
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Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college. He wrote War and Peace.
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Louis Pasteur was rated mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College.
He later discovered that “germs” cause disease—got hospitals to become sanitary,
invented pasteurization of milk and cured rabies.
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Paul Orfalea, the founder of Kinko’s, failed the 2nd grade twice and was actually
labeled as “retarded.”
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Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he had “no good ideas.”
Success is a series of walls that you need to climb. Some
are higher than others. Each wall that you make it over
will strengthen you and the next wall will be that much
easier to climb.
Adapted from http://www.coolmath.com/Survivor-Algebra/12-research-paper.html