There is a Mongolian traditional word says “A person who chases two bunnies is left with none.” As in the video “Work Life Balance” by school life channel on Youtube, it says a person who dedicates their time in one thing will achieve more than who tries to do a variety of things. The author of the video successfully drawn the attention of the audience by taking an example of race car, Audi R8, and by explaining how our brain works. Although, the narrator mentioned very interesting facts and opinions, he failed to balance the idea he tried to explain. In other words, the narrator provided extremely biased information about how people cannot balance their work and life. Also, he used very broad statement, which talks more about the problems
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In the video, “The Work-Life Balance”, author concluded, “Work-life balance is impossible because ‘everything worth fighting for un-balances your life’”. (The School of Life, 2:41). This statement is very strong, and seem to be very persuasive. However, this is a very broad statement, which only states a problem. In further, he described how the variety of activities could be harmful and bring failure to an individual’s life, as the speaker stated in the beginning, “Focusing on one thing in exclusion all others has its costs,” (Work-Life Balance, 2:10) On the other hand, this statement gives too biased opinion to the audience because the author only talks about advantages of focusing on one thing. In fact, there are many benefits of doing variety of thing because doing many thing will extend people’s perspective and talent. For example: the one of the most famous actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is a great role model for work-life balance. He won several world bodybuilding championships, and he still is a successful Hollywood actor, lastly, in 2003, he became the governor of the state of California. From this example, we can conclude that doing variety of thing can be successful in opposed the video’s idea. Therefore, If the speaker talked about this example, and tried to balance the two sided view instead of one sided view, the video could have been more persuasive and …show more content…
By using those examples author successfully introduced the idea of a presentation. In further, he only described and reasoned the breadth variety over total focus perfection. On the other hand, his analyses were lack of valid examples and statistics to strengthen his ideas and by using them, he could convince the audience a lot with his opinion. The author started to discuss about focusing on one thing, “ Focusing on one thing to the exclusion all others has its costs as anyone who’s ever spoken to an athlete who trains 10 hours a day tends to find out. There’s a cost being human equivalent to the sports car.” (Work-Life Balance, 2:04) Telling so, he grabbed a little the attention from the audience and had them realize that this statement is reasonable. Then, the rhetorician said, “Unfortunately, our society had set up an absurd idea: that it will be possible to do many things and do them all completely well.” (Work-Life Balance, 2:18) After saying this statement, the viewers could leave the previous idea and adjust in the new one. But, if he had added an example or statistics, he could have stabilized his opinion to the audience’s mind. Also, to strengthen his idea, he had better to use numerical statistics of people, achieved success by concentrating on one goal, or a valid life experience of someone famous, who became prominent by fully
In the video, “The Work-Life Balance”, author concluded, “Work-life balance is impossible because ‘everything worth fighting for un-balances your life’”. (The School of Life, 2:41). This statement is very strong, and seem to be very persuasive. However, this is a very broad statement, which only states a problem. In further, he described how the variety of activities could be harmful and bring failure to an individual’s life, as the speaker stated in the beginning, “Focusing on one thing in exclusion all others has its costs,” (Work-Life Balance, 2:10) On the other hand, this statement gives too biased opinion to the audience because the author only talks about advantages of focusing on one thing. In fact, there are many benefits of doing variety of thing because doing many thing will extend people’s perspective and talent. For example: the one of the most famous actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger is a great role model for work-life balance. He won several world bodybuilding championships, and he still is a successful Hollywood actor, lastly, in 2003, he became the governor of the state of California. From this example, we can conclude that doing variety of thing can be successful in opposed the video’s idea. Therefore, If the speaker talked about this example, and tried to balance the two sided view instead of one sided view, the video could have been more persuasive and …show more content…
By using those examples author successfully introduced the idea of a presentation. In further, he only described and reasoned the breadth variety over total focus perfection. On the other hand, his analyses were lack of valid examples and statistics to strengthen his ideas and by using them, he could convince the audience a lot with his opinion. The author started to discuss about focusing on one thing, “ Focusing on one thing to the exclusion all others has its costs as anyone who’s ever spoken to an athlete who trains 10 hours a day tends to find out. There’s a cost being human equivalent to the sports car.” (Work-Life Balance, 2:04) Telling so, he grabbed a little the attention from the audience and had them realize that this statement is reasonable. Then, the rhetorician said, “Unfortunately, our society had set up an absurd idea: that it will be possible to do many things and do them all completely well.” (Work-Life Balance, 2:18) After saying this statement, the viewers could leave the previous idea and adjust in the new one. But, if he had added an example or statistics, he could have stabilized his opinion to the audience’s mind. Also, to strengthen his idea, he had better to use numerical statistics of people, achieved success by concentrating on one goal, or a valid life experience of someone famous, who became prominent by fully