Monthly Blog- September

During the Socratic Seminar for The Power of One, there was a question that I want to talk more about. The question was that when Peekay watched Hoppie's fight, he learned the most important rule of winning, keep thinking. What other things happened that showed that Peekay already knew this? During his time at the boarding school, Peekay was tortured but he never stopped thinking of ways to abate this torture. One example that stands out is when he decides to start doing the Judge's homework so that he wouldn't be punished so often. This showed that even in times of stress he was thinking and figured out way to get out of it. Also when he thought of his whole camoflauge idea. Again he was in a very stressful area, with the other kids basically torturing him, and Peekay thought that if he didn't stand out as much, he couldn't get punished as much. I beleive that this is a very important lesson that should be applied to not only winning, but also to everything you do in life. So many bad things happen because people rush decisions and not think through them clearly. The most apparent example i can think of is the position of leader of a country. If the president of the United States didn't keep thinking under stressful situations, then the world would be a much more chaotic place. This holds true for basically any world leader at the moment. Thinking about your problems before acting is probably the single best way to coming out of a situation without to many bad things happening to you and I think Hoppie would agree with me.