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When people are very enthusiastic--always willing and eager to meet new challenges or give undivided support toideas or projects--they are likely to be rewarded. They often work harder and enjoy their work more than do thosewho are more restrained. But there are limits to how enthusiastic people should be. People should always questionand doubt, since too much enthusiasm can prevent people from considering better ideas, goals, or courses ofaction.

ASSIGNMENT: Can people have too much enthusiasm? Plan and write an essay in which you develop yourpoint of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies,experience, or observations.

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1. Success in life is largely a matter of luck. It has little correlation with merit, and in all fields of lifethere have always been people of great merit who did not succeed.

Karl Popper, Popper Selections

2. As Colin Powell said, "There are no secrets to success. Don't waste time looking for them.Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

Adapted from Barry Farber, "Selling Points"

Assignment: Is success in life earned or do people succeed because they are lucky? Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning andexamples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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We must seriously question the idea of majority rule. The majority grinned and jeered whenColumbus said the world was round. The majority threw him into a dungeon for his discoveries.Where is the logic in the notion that the opinion held by a majority of people should have the power toinfluence our decisions?

Adapted from James A. Reed, "Majority Rule"

Assignment: Is the opinion of the majority-in government or in any other circumstances-a poor guide?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position withreasoning and examples from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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It is unrealistic to think that any group of people--a family, a committee, a company, a city--can function peacefullyand productively without some kind of authority. The needs and interests of the individuals who make up any groupare too varied for its members to operate as a unit without having someone to make the final decisions. Somebodyhas to be in charge; somebody has to be ultimately responsible.

ASSIGNMENT: Can a group of people function effectively without someone being in charge? Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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If an old tradition is still around today, we can assume that it deserves to remain in existence. Well-establishedcustoms, styles that are still popular, and ideas that people still find sensible survive because these traditions arestrong enough to survive. Continuity guarantees quality. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business--all these traditions have qualities of survival. Fortunately, these will always be withus.

Adapted from Jacob Braude, Jacob Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations, and Anecdotes

ASSIGNMENT: Do all established traditions deserve to remain in existence? Plan and write an essay in whichyou develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from yourreading, studies, experience, or observations.

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There are those who believe that everything we do is inspired by the desire for power in its various forms. Theymaintain that our actions are nothing but expressions of a striving for power. In this view, even when we act kindlytoward other people, we are motivated, whether we know it or not, by a desire to have some control over theirlives, for our act of kindness puts them partially in our power.

Adapted from Leszek Kolakowski, Freedom, Fame, Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life

ASSIGNMENT: Are people's actions motivated primarily by a desire for power over others? Plan and write anessay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we make a mistake, untilsomething fails to go as we had hoped. When everything is working well, with no problems orfailures, what incentive do we have to try something new? We are only motivated to learn when weexperience difficulties.

Adapted Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

Assignment: Does true learning only occur when we experience difficulties? Plan and write an essay inwhich you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examplestaken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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People are happy only when they have their minds fixed on some goal other than their ownhappiness. Happiness comes when people focus instead on the happiness of others, on theimprovement of humanity, on some course of action that is followed not as a means to anything elsebut as an end in itself. Aiming at something other than their own happiness, they find happinessalong the way. The only way to be happy is to pursue some goal external to your own happiness.

Adapted from John Stuart Mill, Autobiography

Assignment: Are people more likely to be happy if they focus on goals other than their own happiness?Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position withreasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

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All people who have achieved greatness in something knew what they excelled at. These people identified theskills that made them special--good judgment, or courage, or a special artistic or literary talent--and focused ondeveloping these skills. Yet most people achieve superiority in nothing because they fail to identify and developtheir greatest attribute.

Adapted from Baltasar Gracian y Morales, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

ASSIGNMENT: Do people achieve greatness only by finding out what they are especially good at anddeveloping that attribute above all else? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on thisissue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, orobservations.

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