Imagine a world where there was no iPhone, or computer, and nobody had ever traveled into space, and there was no radio, or TV. Hard to imagine, right? You see, every single one of these items or accomplishments had to be thought through and carried out by people. Sure, the people involved in bringing these ideas to life were smart. But what really helped create these? Motivation. Motivation is the key to success With motivation, you can do anything you set your mind to and it doesn’t matter how smart you are, or where you went to college, or what your I.Q is. If you’re smart but you aren’t motivated then you are like a diamond that hasn’t been found. With motivation, you can accomplish anything you want, you can overcome big obstacles, and
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This is why in “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie repeats what Dr. Strauss said: “He said I had good moter-vation. I never knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not everybody with an eye-q of 68 had that thing.” (Progress report 4). The doctors performing the surgery were looking for someone with motivation and Charlie was the perfect candidate because even though he wasn’t smart he still pushed to be the best version of himself. The doctors used him because he wanted to learn, and become smart and he tried very hard. Even before the surgery Charlie was learning things every day because he went to a school for slow adults. Nobody made him go to school, he did it because he was motivated and wanted to be …show more content…
It doesn’t matter if your smart if you don’t do anything with your gift. Plenty of smart people sit on the couch and watch TV all day, and don’t use their talent to make an impact on the world. You could be the smartest person in the world but if you don’t put your gift to use than it doesn’t matter. In the short story “Flowers of Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie uses his brilliance after the surgery to do scientific research on the mouse, Algernon, who had the same surgery as Charlie to triple intelligence. “The facts and result of my experiments are clear, and the more sensational aspects of my own rapid climb cannot obscure the fact that the tripling of intelligence by the surgical technique developed by Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur must be viewed as having little or no practical applicability (at the present time) to the increase of human intelligence.” (June 5). As this quote demonstrates, even though Charlie was only smart for a few months, he still didn’t waste his time or his talent and used his intelligence for the better of the scientific world. Even though what he was discovering meant that his intelligence was going to decline, that didn’t stop him from completing his research and staying motivated even though what the information he was gathering was hard for him to
This is why in “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie repeats what Dr. Strauss said: “He said I had good moter-vation. I never knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not everybody with an eye-q of 68 had that thing.” (Progress report 4). The doctors performing the surgery were looking for someone with motivation and Charlie was the perfect candidate because even though he wasn’t smart he still pushed to be the best version of himself. The doctors used him because he wanted to learn, and become smart and he tried very hard. Even before the surgery Charlie was learning things every day because he went to a school for slow adults. Nobody made him go to school, he did it because he was motivated and wanted to be …show more content…
It doesn’t matter if your smart if you don’t do anything with your gift. Plenty of smart people sit on the couch and watch TV all day, and don’t use their talent to make an impact on the world. You could be the smartest person in the world but if you don’t put your gift to use than it doesn’t matter. In the short story “Flowers of Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie uses his brilliance after the surgery to do scientific research on the mouse, Algernon, who had the same surgery as Charlie to triple intelligence. “The facts and result of my experiments are clear, and the more sensational aspects of my own rapid climb cannot obscure the fact that the tripling of intelligence by the surgical technique developed by Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur must be viewed as having little or no practical applicability (at the present time) to the increase of human intelligence.” (June 5). As this quote demonstrates, even though Charlie was only smart for a few months, he still didn’t waste his time or his talent and used his intelligence for the better of the scientific world. Even though what he was discovering meant that his intelligence was going to decline, that didn’t stop him from completing his research and staying motivated even though what the information he was gathering was hard for him to