1.0 INTRODUCTION This paper is discussed about are leaders born or made. A lot of discussion and debate over the years about whether leaders are born or made. Some of them claim that leaders are born and there are others claim that leaders are made. Both of the groups able to provide sufficient examples and cases of people who either are born leaders or are made leaders. A leader is a person who influences a group of individuals towards the achievement of a goal and objective. In the other hand‚
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Managing‚ Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success”. It’s a great read – I highly recommend it. In it he proposes that a leader is born‚ and not made because of two characteristics which are only peculiar to leaders. These 2 characteristics are innate and are part of one’s personality and therefore‚ one cannot learn to develop such character traits. The first trait is optimism or having an optimistic outlook‚ always focusing on the possibilities. With this disposition‚ one believes that challenges
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and still now argue whether behaviours are learned or innate. Innate behaviour is present at birth‚ developmentally fixed‚ instinctive and unchanging inherited through genes. This involves reflexes which are automatic responses to specific stimulus. Examples of these reflexes are blinking the eye‚ swallowing‚ coughing or producing saliva when eating which protect the body from harm. Nativists believe that many aspects of behaviour are innate‚ or occur naturally regardless to environmental influences
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that nature overpowers nurture and that you are who you are because you cannot be anything else but that nurture also shapes your innate personality characteristics into the person you currently are. First of all‚ child development is down to both nature and nurture. According to Bowlby’s (1969) theory of attachment‚ the mother and child develop a bond because of the innate instinct to ensure
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after abundant misses‚ Zoe starts to hit the ball‚ starting with foul balls and ending with a solid hit. This begs the question‚ what defines talent? Is it innate or learned? In a map of famous athletes’ locations‚ organized by sport‚ there are general scatterings of players in some places with more dense congregations in others. This implies that talent is greatly affected by culture‚ that places where a sport is considerably popular or imbedded in society will have a greater number of talented
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David Ventura Professor Favors English- 1302.81202 21 October 2015 “Grit” Yes‚ grit is a predicator of academic‚ professional‚ and personal success. Grit can be defined as strength of character or the ability to overcome failure and continue to work toward success. People with grit are not always the people with the most natural ability‚ but their work ethic and ability to overcome obstacles allows them to achieve success. Grit is a very valuable characteristic in almost any venture‚ as it gives
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believed that some people are born with certain talents; for instance for sport or music‚ and others not. However‚ it is sometimes claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sport person or musician. Discuss both these view and give your own opinion. It is normally believed that in order to become an athlete or musician‚ you should be born to do that. On the other hand‚ there are many people think practice makes perfect without a certain talent. The question of nature versus nurture has
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tendencies. Temperaments‚ traits‚ and attitudes affect the quality of life of each individual. This is assuming one is in a non-oppressive relativity free environment. The examination of one’s own personality including their strengths‚ weaknesses‚ and talents is beneficial to their pursuit of happiness and optimal mental health. The misunderstanding of these qualities lowers one’s quality of life and or lead to mental disorders or unhappiness that might otherwise be preventable through self-analysis and
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The 10‚000 Hour Rule is the idea that it takes about 10‚000 hours to master a skill. In Outliers‚ Gladwell uses Bill Gates as an example. According to Gladwell‚ Gates spent approximately 10‚000 hours practicing coding‚ honing the skills that he would later use to build his multi-billion dollar software company known as Microsoft. Bill Gates is a real-life example of the idiom “Practice makes perfect”. The 10‚000 hour also factors into education. In order to ensure success in school‚ I must reform
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Warren Buffett is well known as the most successful investor in the world. Known as the “Oracle of Omaha‚” most wouldn’t hesitate to say that Buffett has massive innate talent for investing‚ but that’s before they know the whole story. It’s indisputable that Buffett is a successful investor‚ but it’s because of his ancestors’ lifestyles‚ the era of his birth‚ and his hidden opportunities. If any of these three factors had changed‚ Buffett may not have become a household name. In Malcom Gladwell’s
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