Meaning of Life
The point that people rarely understand, that nothing is exactly what you think, will be the longest time of your life. In the book The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth, he identifies the use of logos, pathos, and ethos appeals by writing a chapter that is called “Nothing is what you think it is.” In the chapter nothing is what you think it is, Bernard Roth says you give everything its meaning, by saying this you are giving your family, friends, and objects some kind of meaning whether it’s logical, emotional, or ethical. Although nothing is what you think it is it can turn out better or worse than you expect.
Bernard Roth has a section in his chapter that is based on his permanent record when he was in grade school.
“The earliest I can remember was the day I came home for lunch in tears from my fourth-grade class. I had been making noise in the stairwell and a teacher, hearing me, told me that the offense would go on my permanent “record card.” (pg.26 Roth)
He expressed in this chapter how his teacher from the fourth grade told him that if he did not behave everything would go on his permanent record. As a young child he was terrified because he wanted to be the best student and person you could ever be. Once he realized there was no permanent record, he put some thought into how much different his childhood would have been if he would have …show more content…
In this chapter Roth gets his own tape recorder stolen after finishing a project. Fortunately the project was already graded before the incident, Roth later found that his classmates stole it. Getting mistreated in such way makes a person upset and left wondering why it happened. He remembers thinking how nothing has a meaning. After pondering on this Roth mastered they way of thinking that he could conquer anything that comes at him. Bernard’s theory is that even though nothing is what you think it is, it turns out that everything is what you think it
The point that people rarely understand, that nothing is exactly what you think, will be the longest time of your life. In the book The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth, he identifies the use of logos, pathos, and ethos appeals by writing a chapter that is called “Nothing is what you think it is.” In the chapter nothing is what you think it is, Bernard Roth says you give everything its meaning, by saying this you are giving your family, friends, and objects some kind of meaning whether it’s logical, emotional, or ethical. Although nothing is what you think it is it can turn out better or worse than you expect.
Bernard Roth has a section in his chapter that is based on his permanent record when he was in grade school.
“The earliest I can remember was the day I came home for lunch in tears from my fourth-grade class. I had been making noise in the stairwell and a teacher, hearing me, told me that the offense would go on my permanent “record card.” (pg.26 Roth)
He expressed in this chapter how his teacher from the fourth grade told him that if he did not behave everything would go on his permanent record. As a young child he was terrified because he wanted to be the best student and person you could ever be. Once he realized there was no permanent record, he put some thought into how much different his childhood would have been if he would have …show more content…
In this chapter Roth gets his own tape recorder stolen after finishing a project. Fortunately the project was already graded before the incident, Roth later found that his classmates stole it. Getting mistreated in such way makes a person upset and left wondering why it happened. He remembers thinking how nothing has a meaning. After pondering on this Roth mastered they way of thinking that he could conquer anything that comes at him. Bernard’s theory is that even though nothing is what you think it is, it turns out that everything is what you think it