Summary Of What Drives Success By Rubenfeld

The Triple Package of Traits = Success? Success was something that everyone strove for worldwide, but there have been controversies and questions about how to achieve it. This is what Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld argue in their article, “What Drives Success?”. The authors argue that there were three things needed to succeed: a superiority complex, insecurity, and impulse control. The article goes over the success prevalent in those of many family backgrounds. Those that achieve success do not come from one particular background, covering of three things: a superiority complex, insecurity, and impulse control. Any individual from any background can have the “Triple Package of traits,” but some groups are able to use these more, resulting in
In the example of New York City’s most selective public high schools, Stuyvesant High School offered admission based off of an admissions test, which admitted “nine black students, 24 Hispanics, 177 whites and 620 Asians” into the school, of which most of them come from “children of restaurant workers and other working-class immigrants.” The authors state that “there are some black and Hispanic groups that far outperform some white and Asian groups,” which shows how success did not relate to one specific ethnicity. Many Asians were successful because their kids were exposed to the Triple Package. At a young age, Chinese families questioned their child “Why only a 99?” giving them a sense of family pride (and superiority) to always score perfectly, yet it also made many Asians insecure about their non-perfect grades, but helped motivate their impulse control in staying home to study instead of playing with their
The authors used Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as an example, born into a poverty, she rose above and beyond to become the first Hispanic court judge. Sotomayor had a hard time in school, and had a moment of courage and asked one of the smartest girls in her grade how she studied, and after that, her grades shot up and she applied and got into Princeton University. Justice Sotomayor’s experience shows how she had to overcome and how much determination she had to succeed. Sotomayor’s superiority complex was in believing herself that she could succeed against the “odds stacked against her”; her insecurity was in fifth grade, when she approached a girl and “‘ask her how to study’”; and her impulse control was resisting the temptation to quit, even though she had such a hard time at a young age getting good