Vital Achievements In Maya Angelou's Book 'Thrive'

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Vital Achievements Triumph. Triumph is a word that is used many times when you finally accomplish your goal. You’re finally achieving something that might have took you so long. Still, success is within money and power. Typically, having all these opulence and power is the outcome for most people. This is what happen to this well known businesswoman, Arianna Huffington. She had one day collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep, she woke from a pool of blood because she had hit her head. With her personal experience she learned that success has to do more than just focusing on money and power. In her book “Thrive” there’s this quote of her where she was aware of her misinterpretation of triumph, “ I was working eighteen hours, seven days …show more content…

Being courageous is a vital part of life and achievements. This quality means she/he is able to face difficulty and obstacles without the fear of what might happen. A person takes a risk that they are deep down sure of. Don’t be discouraged when it comes to choices that seem impossible to face. That’s the cycle of accomplishments anyone will face along the way and confront them the best anyone can. Maya Angelou is the right person to go to when it comes to needing a role model that will inspire you. This one quote from her that caught attention, “Courage is most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can’t consistently be kind or fair, not without it because if you don’t have it sooner or later, you’ll stop and say,”Eh, the threat is too much, the difficulty is too high or challenge is to great.” Every single person must be brave enough and in the right mindset to make decisions and not focus on how tough the competition is. Being brave doesn’t always come in a quality of a person. Maya Angelou was raped at the age of 7 by her own family member. She could have just denied anything happen to her, but she was brave enough to admit everything that happen to her. She struggled with her situation to the point where she stopped talking but she realized there is something better out there for her. She turned her life into a book “I Know Why The Bird cage Sings”, and bravely went through every detail of her life. Maya ended up being a very successful woman. Like anyone else she faced challenges but being courageous is what helped

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