The Concept Of Success: Margaret Mead's Views On Success

Margaret Mead once said that "For many Americans, the concept of success is a source of confusion. As a people, we Americans greatly prize success. We are taught to celebrate and admire the one who gets the highest grades, the one voted most attractive or most likely to succeed. But while we often rejoice in the success of people far removed from ourselves-people who work in another profession, live in another community, or are endowed with a talent that we do not especially want for ourselves-we tend to regard the success of people close at hand, within our own small group, as a threat." Personally i believe that this is not true for many reasons. It makes the world run smoother although I wont be talking about that personally it really does.

When i was playing football in my freshman and sophomore year I was not the best player by far. If anything i was probably one of the worst players on the team. I sat bench a whole lot that is for sure, but when i finally began to see how successful my teammates had been it drove me to succeed I was starting to be faster and my hands were becoming better. I was actually putting up a run for the starting position. I never once became jealous of my teammates success i just wanted to be a part of it so i drove myself to where I was a good enough player that I could become a part of it. That is why Margaret Meads view on success is flawed is that we thrive off of one another 's success we don 't see them as a threat because of

When we go into the voting polls to vote we have one man in mind, we don 't see him as a threat or anything of that kind instead we want him to be our countries leader. We don 't pity him or hate him because of his success we elect him to lead us in the hardest job on earth. That is something that not to many people would be able to do in my opinion unless they were a successful individual. At that point we would have to view him as an enemy or a threat according to Margaret Mead and that is something that they clearly are not. They are not a threat to us if we are electing them to lead one of the greatest nations that the intergalactic universe has ever seen. No we simply elect them and call them our leader we go wherever they go for the next four to eight years and then we continue on our way. Until we vote for the next successful individual. It is a never ending cycle in which we are always going to be electing successful individuals that we do not see as a threat to ourselves as well as other countries. That is why we elect them so that we can keep ourselves safe as well as the world safe because we are the strongest country on the earth and that kind of power could possibly go to some ones head so we have to elect someone who wont have that