Adaptability You’ve just gotten your dream job, your boss is great, you get a company car, and of course an amazing salary, all of these things are handed to you and you’ve just barely turned 18. The catch with this is you have to wake up 45 minutes earlier, you have a farther drive, get home later and the job takes away from your studies while you’re halfway through your freshman year of college. How do you manage all of these things? Adaptability. Adaptability is “the ability to change or be changed in order to fit or work better in some situation or for some purpose” (Merriam-Webster). The world is changing every day; the ability to adapt and be up to date with progression of society is something that is a part of human nature. In today’s
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If human kind didn’t adapt, we would still be fighting in wars with sticks on horseback. The fact that almost all of schooling in America is done with a connection in some way to the internet or even a computer, shows that we have to adapt and change with the times. Adapting isn’t just an action done with the innovation of a world changing discovery, but it’s something generations are born into. Parents these days were lucky if they had a single home phone, let alone a cellphone. If they did have a cellphone it was roughly the size of a brick, they never would have imagined a world where their cellphone was a part of daily life and that a single iPhone would have more technology and be more complex than the spaceship that sent man to the …show more content…
It could be used as a compliment, or as a burden. People who are characterized as able to adapt will get the better job, as they are the ones who are willing or have the ability to change. If you take Steve Jobs as an example, he was an orphan who dropped out of college (Steve Jobs Biography). He was willing to accept change, which is why he and his partner revolutionized and changed phones and music players forever. He took what he had, and what he knew and he changed it to better society and to move it along. He not only adapted, but he made it possible for many to adapt to the world of touch screens and hundreds of songs and games in your pocket. Almost every piece of human knowledge public such as stock prices, or private such as Hilary Clinton’s email, is on the internet and accessible through a
If human kind didn’t adapt, we would still be fighting in wars with sticks on horseback. The fact that almost all of schooling in America is done with a connection in some way to the internet or even a computer, shows that we have to adapt and change with the times. Adapting isn’t just an action done with the innovation of a world changing discovery, but it’s something generations are born into. Parents these days were lucky if they had a single home phone, let alone a cellphone. If they did have a cellphone it was roughly the size of a brick, they never would have imagined a world where their cellphone was a part of daily life and that a single iPhone would have more technology and be more complex than the spaceship that sent man to the …show more content…
It could be used as a compliment, or as a burden. People who are characterized as able to adapt will get the better job, as they are the ones who are willing or have the ability to change. If you take Steve Jobs as an example, he was an orphan who dropped out of college (Steve Jobs Biography). He was willing to accept change, which is why he and his partner revolutionized and changed phones and music players forever. He took what he had, and what he knew and he changed it to better society and to move it along. He not only adapted, but he made it possible for many to adapt to the world of touch screens and hundreds of songs and games in your pocket. Almost every piece of human knowledge public such as stock prices, or private such as Hilary Clinton’s email, is on the internet and accessible through a