<p>Prompt – Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are?</p>
<pre><code>On the long trek from birth to death that we call life, there are certain defining moments that call for our true natures to show – Whether courageous, cowardly, altruistic, or selfish, the question of “Who am I?” is finally answered. These defining moments are rare adversities placed throughout, in most people, a sea of ease and comfort. It is within these unpredictable times that one may discover him or herself. Through the innovative and famous Steve Job’s downfall from his life’s work and the corrupted businessmen like Bernie Madoff, humanity will be able to justify the value in these moments of true test.
In 1993, Steve Jobs reached a disagreement with his partner Steve Worchitz and his systems manager of marketing Louis Ralph, which led to him being voted off management of Apple. Devastated by the hit, Jobs had never experienced such a blow to his work. Apple was his life and his heart was poured into it. However, Jobs later admits that if it wasn’t for this downfall, Apple may have never reached its greatness of today. At this point, he could take a step back to reevaluate his life’s decisions and was able to experiment with various opportunities such as aesthetic textography, which is now present in all Apple products but most prominently in the Macbooks. Through his successful return, it can be shown that adversity is needed to discover our flaws and thus improve ourselves.
Business today is corrupted at the global scale. Business men and women, CEOs, mangers, and bosses will all cut corners in a clandestine manner – Just as long as they don’t get caught. These authorities who should be holding the laws dear to their morals have begun treating their whole business as simply a game. “It’ll all be fun and games until someone gets hurt.” Unfortunately at such an important and influential level, when someone is caught for corruption, punishment is crushing. A prime example is Bernie Madoff and his scheme that stole billions and billions of dollars. In the process, the truth of what he was doing alluded him, but when his life sentence was read to him, I’m sure his life came crashing down on him as a wave of guilt and shame. For the next 150 years, Madoff’s soul will suffer under the realization of what he did for our actions define who we are.
Based on Job’s re-evaluation and successful return and corrupted business authorities like Bernie Madoff, the world can, indeed, say that adversity is needed for us to discover who we are and, if possible, fix our flaws to move forward.
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