“Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.”
p. 4
Though many people may find this book fictional or made up. The theme relates to us all. Will power can help you survive, or do anything, just as long as you work at it. Dave’s will power made him strong, and even though he was affected by his mother’s neglection, and abuse, he still made the conscious decision of living, and strived every day, to do what he could to stay out of trouble. He wasn’t going to let his mom win, and he was going to do whatever it took to stay alive, even if it meant eating, what not even the dogs would eat, or stealing food. He made the conscious decision of surviving.
In life every day, we make conscious decisions for ourselves. We decide what we will wear, how we will act, if we will do our work, or if we will just be lazy and stay home, and watch movies all day. These decisions are our own conscious decisions, and they all affect us in some way. If I tell myself that I will have a good grade in math by the end of the semester and work hard at it, I could possibly get a good grade. If I tell myself that there’s no possible way that I can pass math, and I just sit in class and do absolutely nothing, and never try, there’s no possible way that I can succeed in math. Even when times are tough, if we decide, and tell ourselves that in the end we will come out victorious, we will, and even if we don’t, we will still have the hope that one day it might actually happen.
Life is only what you make it, even though Dave's childhood was horrible, he told himself that if he ever got out,he would make someone or something of himself. Dave is an inpiration to us all, and if we tap into our own "internal motivation" we too can do anything.
In life every day, we make conscious decisions for ourselves. We decide what we will wear, how we will act, if we will do our work, or if we will just be lazy and stay home, and watch movies all day. These decisions are our own conscious decisions, and they all affect us in some way. If I tell myself that I will have a good grade in math by the end of the semester and work hard at it, I could possibly get a good grade. If I tell myself that there’s no possible way that I can pass math, and I just sit in class and do absolutely nothing, and never try, there’s no possible way that I can succeed in math. Even when times are tough, if we decide, and tell ourselves that in the end we will come out victorious, we will, and even if we don’t, we will still have the hope that one day it might actually happen.
Life is only what you make it, even though Dave's childhood was horrible, he told himself that if he ever got out,he would make someone or something of himself. Dave is an inpiration to us all, and if we tap into our own "internal motivation" we too can do anything.
"I learned the secret of internal motivation. "
p.57
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