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On Excellence“It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way.” According to the quote, excellence is useless to someone who doesn’t use it properly and to the fullest extent. From the online dictionary, http://www.dictionary.com/, excellence is defined as something in which one excels. Although, some of us don’t ever achieve our highest possible excellence. Everyone has a chance of reaching their highest potential of excellence with some determination. Excellence is achieving your highest level of hard work and understanding of any concept.Achieving excellence has a lot to do with a person’s morals. The term moral is described as the principle or rules of right conduct or distinction between right and wrong. Many people get there morals from their family members or friends, and use the knowledge past on to them as a motivation towards excellence. Everyone has the ability to use their understanding of morals for good to achieve the highest point of excellence, but some chose to go in a different direction. For example, cheating is a big issue with trying to reach excellence. A person’s morals have a lot to do with their achievement of success.Cheating is becoming a major in today’s society as far as achieving excellence. According to the article, Look out for more Blairs, Jayson Blair was a former New York Times reporter who was accused of copying other peoples work or making it up. College students especially are cheating on papers by coping work off of the internet or books, and are being suspended or expelled from school. Mark Donald Ludwig also states that it is impossible to catch all the cheaters, but for those who do get caught, there will be major consequences. Cheating is becoming a problem amongst many students today, especially those who are trying to achieve excellence.
The Crooked Tree, by Benjamin Hoff, is about a man’s tree that no one wants to use. He says to man complaining about his tree to get over his problem with it. He could use it as shade and shelter, even though it is not as valuable as lumber. This story relates to excellence in a way of if you try to hard to look for negative affects of something, you will begin to be negative yourself. But, if you work hard and find the positive affects, excellence will happen naturally. Achieving excellence is how much effort you put into it, you will receive in return.
Excellence could be defined in many different ways depending upon what type of person you are. Although, everyone wants to succeed and have excellence in their life at one point or another. We all have something that we could excel in, and a lot of us have already. Excellence is what you make it, whether it is excelling in a sport and activity, or in education. People may try different ways to excel, and not all of them are good ways, but getting to the point of excellence is a fun journey. Excellence is achieving your highest level of hard work and understanding of any concept. Go get started and start excelling!