Walter Liptmann The Opposition Analysis

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Walter Lippmann, a famous writer, once wrote, “The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.” In other words, he is saying that criticism is necessary, and people learn more from criticism and failure versus success and praise. Praise and criticism are are a big part of everyone’s lives. But where praise makes people stop, criticism makes them keep going. Opposition is what drives us to think differently, and get better. It challenges us and makes our competitive drives come out. Those mistakes are essential because there is something or someone there to correct and criticize you, opposition. It is how the world got to where it …show more content…

Let’s move on.”, you have to think “What did I do wrong? How can I get better?” A good example of this is the invention of the light bulb. Thomas Edison quotes, “I didn’t fail. I just found 2000 ways not to make a lightbulb; I only needed to find one way to make it work.” In a sense, he is saying that you never really fail, you just learn how not to get the result you wanted. If it were not for those 2000 mistakes, he would never have made the perfect light bulb. Thousands upon thousands of other inventions were made the same way, by a succession of failures. Another example would be Walt Disney. One of the most famous names in our society today, known to make all the imaginative movies and stories children have adored for years. Before his story of success, he had a story of failure. He was once fired from a newspaper company because they believed he lacked creativity (Demers). That critique made him re-evaluate himself and strive to be better. That failure is one of things that made him the most loved and famous story writers today. Many people have these failure to success stories. The failure they experienced made them take a different perspective to get better, and work hard to

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