Essay On Ted Talk
The Other Wes Moore connected to TED Talk John Coyle the speaker of my Ted Talk talked about strengths and weaknesses. Coyle encouraged his audience to focus more on their strengths rather that their weaknesses. Coyle believed that if a person worked too long to improve their weaknesses, then it is obvious that they can’t improve those weaknesses, and should move on to focusing on their strengths. Therefore, the best thing to do is to move on to building up their strengths, because they can surely improve their strengths. According to the author of the book The Other Wes Moore, Wes never took the time to focus on his weaknesses in school. Wes focused on what he thought as an easy way to make money by selling drugs. He had a strength to manage,
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His mother, Mary, scolded him for the drugs she found in his room and flushed them down the toilet. That was a lot of money he had to pay back to his suppliers. In spite of that Wes only thought “he’d be smarter about where he kept the stash and how often he would move it around,” (Wes 74). Wes doesn’t completely understand how to deal with failure. He didn’t even take into consideration quitting the drug business. What if his suppliers decided to inflict some harm on Wes or his mother? Wes only thinks about ways to get out of the problem, but he doesn’t think about the serious damage the drug business will bring into his and his families lives.
The money he made in his drug operation allowed Wes to buy expensive clothing brands, which “made him very popular with the girls around town,” (Wes 98). In consequence, Wes was involved in even more problems. Wes impregnated a girl while in high school. Moreover, he was put in jail for six months, after shooting a cousin of one of the girls he was sleeping with, in the shoulder. Obviously, trying to build up one's strengths is not always the best option. Wes should have kept attending school and probably wouldn’t have had to experience such situations at such a young
His mother, Mary, scolded him for the drugs she found in his room and flushed them down the toilet. That was a lot of money he had to pay back to his suppliers. In spite of that Wes only thought “he’d be smarter about where he kept the stash and how often he would move it around,” (Wes 74). Wes doesn’t completely understand how to deal with failure. He didn’t even take into consideration quitting the drug business. What if his suppliers decided to inflict some harm on Wes or his mother? Wes only thinks about ways to get out of the problem, but he doesn’t think about the serious damage the drug business will bring into his and his families lives.
The money he made in his drug operation allowed Wes to buy expensive clothing brands, which “made him very popular with the girls around town,” (Wes 98). In consequence, Wes was involved in even more problems. Wes impregnated a girl while in high school. Moreover, he was put in jail for six months, after shooting a cousin of one of the girls he was sleeping with, in the shoulder. Obviously, trying to build up one's strengths is not always the best option. Wes should have kept attending school and probably wouldn’t have had to experience such situations at such a young