Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy

  

 

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1) This book is about the life of Tony Dungy, a former NFL coach who had a winning career, It's not just about how his career went but also about how his bringing up got him there. It shows his morals that he follows in life and how his priorities helped him achieve goals that many dream about.
2) Being an autobiography, Dungy wrote about his life to show what he had to do to get to where he was. It was written after Dungy won the superbowl XLI with the Colts people wanted to know how he felt after the long struggle to obtain something that all football players dream to have. It's an inspiration to those that want to reach his level of stature one day.
3) Honestly it's funny how I came across this book. I went to the bathroom one day and it was on the ground and I picked it up. I started skimming through and I got really into the book and started actually reading from the beginning. It's an inspirational story that shows that the most important part of life is the values that you follow.
4) Of course I found this novel interesting because it wasn't just any person writing about their life that I haven't heard of before. This was someone I've heard of and watched on tv coaching his team to victory time and time again. These days you see him as a game commentator where you see his true humbleness. So to read this it brought a deeper connection to his life outside of sports that most people don't see.



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1) Well it's hard to see how the characters in this story would be made up because it is written by the man who lived this life himself. The author does have their perspectives on things but it's pretty hard to make people different when you're the one writing about an experience first hand, especially when it is coming from someone who tells things by how they are and not just what they want to believe. An example of this was an issue that Dungy had a problem with but was taken completely the wrong way. He was upset with a commercial that Terrell Owens had been in involving him missing a game to be with a desperate housewife. People took Dungy's view as him not liking the idea of a white woman with a black man. Dungy's interpretation had been completely altered becomes he was upset over the fact that Owens was advertising that it's ok to leave your priorities for temptation. I have a lot of respect for Dungy because he isn't trying to alter any ones views but try to lead as an example.
2) When Dungy talks about his sons, a more loving tone was used and normally involved deeper talks. An example is when Dungy talks about how his youngest Eric son bonded with the players. After One of these players that his son bond with was traded, he was upset because there was a new player wearing his number. Dungy has to explain to him that nothing can always stay the same so just be open to the new things life presents.
3) Dungy's life is interesting to write about because he doesn't take it as luck or something he truly deserved. He follows his life with god leading him. His religious beliefs, morals, and priorities he lives by helped him get to where he is but he truly believes in gods blessings.

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If you are joining my network, welcome. I am an inspiring electrical/physical therapist and I am goibg to be using this blog to give information on the research I find in these two fields.

Masterpiece essay #1

Growing up, we've always thought of the different things we wanted to be when we grew up. An astronaut, vet, race car driver, football player, etc.. As we grow up these things change with the influences around you whether that be someone telling you that your dream is impossible or you change as a person yourself and find a new interest. I can say personally myself that this happened because as I began to grow up, I went from wanting to be a vet to wanting to be an engineer. Even now that is in question because I'm starting to take interest in physical therapy. What I can say is that both have played a huge role in my life and is something I'm split between right now but I have connections to both. 

     Growing up my favorite toys were Legos. Did I ever think this would play a part in me gaining interest in engineering? No way. My imagination ran wild because it became clear to me that just building the models shown based of the instructions wasn't satisfying enough. I began making my own creations but soon went from just being my own models to more gadget like builds. Eventually when I began to get older my building of random Lego gadgets to building things I got off the internet from household items. It was then I began to span more into messing with electrical components. I found this to  be more interesting than actually building so I got very curious when it came to wiring. My very first electrical contraption was a digital clock powered by potatoes. Simple? Yes, but boy did that give me the interest to try to do more. It went on to making red dot sights and Lego cranes with electromagnets in them, but it came to a halt due to trouble.

     Engineering has been something that I'd want to have a career in but that has began to slip to the thought of physical therapy. In the last 7 years of my life, sports have began to play a huge roll in my life. I'm around it all the time and I love to play sports. My days of being a player though are near it's end and I still want to be around the action. So I began to think what's going to keep me around sports and I realized, physical therapy deals with sports athletes. I began to look into it more and it seems to be something I'd really enjoy. I'm still in the research stage but it was perks just like engineering. 

     

Launch

1) I've found that my passion is to build things and see how they are built. I've come to realize that the two fields I am intrested in are more closely related than I thought. Electrical engineering and physical therapy both intrested me because one is showing the study of how electronics are put together and function and another shows how the body is put together and how it functions. I'm still split between the two and really trying to find which one has something that just wins me over.

2) Media can help me a whole lot because in this case I can reach out to people in forums and have them give me their opinions and also just research more into the field and see what perks they have.

3) I feel I should start to reach out to people to make more connections so in the future, I have a head start into whatever I choose to do.

4) I feel to impress others, I should gain alot more background on what is done in the fields and be able to demonstrate that I have taught myself some pointers in the field as well.

5) By just going out and talking to the people that I already know that can help.

6) for physical therapy, I can easily start out by going to righetti's own athletic trainer or the hancock athletic trainer or sims. I know the people in all three areas and are local so they are easy to contact. For engineering, I can reach out to my mom's cousin who is a structural engineer. Although it isn't the same type of engineering I like, he may be able to help me still pursue that path.

My Vocabulary #1

Telecommunications
Conversationalist
Humanities
Endeavors
Accountant
Semiconductor
Proliferation
Wave propagation
Transmission
Sub fields

Prognosis
Gerontology
Inevitable
Chiropodist
Degenerative
Therapeutic
Acute care
Sub acute rehabilitation
Hospice
Incontinence