Even though young people often receive the advice to “follow your dreams,” more emphasis should be placed on picking worthy goals.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reaso

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Even though young people often receive the advice to “follow your dreams,” more emphasis should be placed on picking worthy goals.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

The trite mantra of the postmodern America is to follow your passions to be successful. According to the American Dream, individuals possess the inalienable rights to follow their dreams and pursue their own happiness. However, the supermajority of Americans misattributes this lofty ideal as a success formula. Some even evince that Steve Jobs cited this philosophy in his famous commencement speech at Stanford. On the contrary, Steve Job intentionally concluded that following your passions is a worthwhile end state, but not procedure. The optimal method of achieving success is an amalgam of maintaining a realistic, malleable mindset and apply practical goals.
Smart goal setting facilitates reliable results in terms of individual performance. Steven Pinker advocated the SMART acronym to organize reasonable goal setting. Goals should be circumscribed as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time Sensitive. According to the researchers from Harvard Business School, this methodology matches individual success with initial planned milestones by 15%. A goal requires specificity such that the individual dedicates its ephemeral form as lucidly as possible. An individual should also have methods to measure its progress such as a calendar or a chart that visually depicts incremental milestones achieved. The goal should be achievable and realistic in that it is not outside the constraints of impossibility. Finally, the goal especially should tether time horizons onto its achievement. This also structures the goal such that there are practical enforcement mechanisms as an impetus for accomplishment.
Once the individual has established tangible goals, this engenders a crystallized, hardened mindset at the outset. Psychologists from University of California Berkeley cite research that practical goals establish mental frameworks and facilitate plasticity around problem solving. One author from the self-help book Grit hypothesizes that this procedure results in a phenomenon known as grit. Grit elicits an individual to fastidiously iterate and resolve in the face of adversity. The United States Army attempts to establish this grit amongst its enlisted soldiers by utilizing a Master Resiliency Training course that attempts to reinforce these values and burnish its organization’s pliability.
Continuous research insists that this resiliency and growth mindset metes out the most successful individuals. Carol Dweck establishes in her book Mindset that the top 10% successful individuals cited in the Times 100 most influential people adopt this mindset. A growth mindset is one that adapts in the face of adversity or crucibles. These individuals ask “What did I do wrong this time? How can I achieve better in the future?”. On the other hand, fixed mindset persons often attribute failures to the situation. They suffer from the fundamental attribution error in that they erroneously attribute failures to the surrounding environment and successes completely to personal traits. After failing in something, a fixed mindset individual will ask “Why did the system ignore me? How did I get so harshly treated?” as opposed to taking a problem-solving approach and treating the situation as a learning experience.
Some critics will argue that America is built upon a dream and every individual has the right to do as he or she pleases. This is true to an extent. An individual can take whatever approach to pursue happiness, yet the expectations should be realistically constrained to prevent an entitlement culture. America was built upon the settlers’ and founders’ blood, sweat, and toil to achieve the great nation seen today. Colonists at the time recognized the importance of personal accountability and realism commixed with neoliberal ideals. To be the most successful American, it is important to cede that practical goals and resiliency will result in realized dreams.
In summary, the optimal formula to happiness and success is not to follow your dreams. Although it is a noble end state, this should not be the process to become a self-actualized individual. It is important to aggregate pragmatic goals and mental schema to achieve the desired coda of life.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, however, if, so, while, in summary, such as, on the contrary, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3613.0 2235.4752809 162% => OK
No of words: 639.0 442.535393258 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.65414710485 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02776782673 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23888619608 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 347.0 215.323595506 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54303599374 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 1128.6 704.065955056 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 38.0 20.2370786517 188% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.706182104 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.0789473684 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8157894737 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.60526315789 5.21951772744 50% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 25.0 10.2758426966 243% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.110286385457 0.243740707755 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0294110617778 0.0831039109588 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0313457666794 0.0758088955206 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0641267696576 0.150359130593 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0258677568037 0.0667264976115 39% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.19 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.38706741573 117% => OK
difficult_words: 217.0 100.480337079 216% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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