Papers On Brilliance

Have you ever stopped and thought, what is brilliance or what defines brilliance? Brilliance started out as the Latin word berylus and first emerged as the word brilliant 17th century France. Brilliance is used in a drastic spectrum, such as brilliance in success and also a brilliant failure. I personally see brilliance as something a person possesses and uses it to change the world or people’s lives. Brilliance can be shown in school, as I just stated, or other places such as sports or just everyday life. It is impossible to lack brilliance and brilliance is not a new concept to our generations, it has been described for centuries. Brilliance is something everyone has inside of them, now whether or not you choose to find it is your choice. Brilliance can be shown in many things such as school and testing or sports and everyday life. In school brilliance is shown through understanding material and Testing, such as the ACT and SAT. Brilliance can be assumed through these tests just by the scores and the percentiles individuals fall into. In athletics the brilliance is harder to achieve or be recognized. It is a different brilliance than school because instead of just cognitive brilliance athletes also need physical brilliance which is why it is achieved so much less. In hockey, …show more content…
Every person has the tools for brilliance but it is whether they have the drive to pursue it. When you think of brilliance you think of someone like Albert Einstein or Leonardo Da Vinci. These people started out the same as you and I but they found what they were good at and put in the time and effort to make changes in the world. The reason every person possesses brilliance is because we all make a change in the world each day, just not on the same scale as others, which is why brilliance is so rarely used. Brilliance is not decided by yourself but by your peers and people around