The wisest person part one

The wisest person

part one​

By Waine Evans

Multiple Choice

The wisest person I ever met in my life, a third-grade dropout. Wisest and dropout in the same sentence is rather oxymoronic, like jumbo shrimp.

What does the word wisest mean?

• having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

• a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings The phrase "cruel kindness" is an oxymoron.

• a person who stops being involved in society because he or she does not believe in its rules, customs, and values

• is slang and a derogatory term for a poor white person, often who lives in the rural Southern United States and who often has conservative or bigoted attitudes.

Multiple Choice

The wisest person I ever met in my life, a third-grade dropout. Wisest and dropout in the same sentence is rather oxymoronic, like jumbo shrimp.

What does the word dropout mean?

• having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

• a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings The phrase "cruel kindness" is an oxymoron.

• a person who stops being involved in society because he or she does not believe in its rules, customs, and values

• is slang and a derogatory term for a poor white person, often who lives in the rural Southern United States and who often has conservative or bigoted attitudes.

Multiple Choice

The wisest person I ever met in my life, a third-grade dropout. Wisest and dropout in the same sentence is rather oxymoronic, like jumbo shrimp.

What does the word oxymoronic mean?

• having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

• a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings The phrase "cruel kindness" is an oxymoron.

• a person who stops being involved in society because he or she does not believe in its rules, customs, and values

• is slang and a derogatory term for a poor white person, often who lives in the rural Southern United States and who often has conservative or bigoted attitudes.

Multiple Choice

Like Fun Run, ain ’t nothing fun about it, like Microsoft Works. You all don’t hear me. I used to say like country music, but I’ve lived in _____ so long, I love country music now. I hunt, I fish. I have cowboy boots and cowboy …

What is the missing word?

• New York

• L.A.

• Texas

• California

Multiple Choice

You all, I’m a black neck redneck. Do you hear what I’m saying to you? No longer oxymoronic for me to say country music, and it’s not oxymoronic for me to say third grade and dropout.

What does the word redneck mean?

• having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgment.

• a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings The phrase "cruel kindness" is an oxymoron.

• a person who stops being involved in society because he or she does not believe in its rules, customs, and values

• is slang and a derogatory term for a poor white person, often who lives in the rural Southern United States and who often has conservative or bigoted attitudes.

Multiple Choice

That third grade dropout, the wisest person I ever met in my life, who taught me to _____ knowledge and wisdom to make an impact, was my father, a simple cook, wisest man I ever met in my life,

• link

• join

• unite

• combine

Multiple Choice

just a simple cook, left school in the third grade to help out on the family farm, but just because he left school doesn’t mean his education stopped. Mark Twain once said, “I’ve never allowed my schooling to get in the way of my education.”

What does the above quote mean?

• Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.your brain structure changes according to what you do.

• School education can only get us so far, but the rest is up to the individual who seeks to better themselves or to attain fulfilment from what they choose to learn.

• to be humble, to not put yourself above others and not think to highly of yourself.

Multiple Choice

My father taught himself how to read,taught himself how to write, decided in the midst of Jim Crowism, as America was breathing the last gasp of the Civil War, my father decided he was going to stand and be a man, not a black man, not a brown man, not a white man, but a man. He _____ challenged himself to be the best that he could all the days of his life.

• exactly

• closely

• precise

• literally

Multiple Choice

I have _____ degrees. My brother is a judge. We’re not the smartest ones in our family. It’s a third -grade dropout daddy, a third-grade dropout daddy

• three

• four

• five

• six

Open Ended

who was quoting Michelangelo, saying to us boys, “I won’t have a problem if you aim high and miss, but I’m gonna have a real issue if you aim low and hit.”

What does the above quote mean?

Multiple Choice

A country mother quoting Henry Ford, saying, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you’re right.”

What does the above quote mean?

• People tend to defend mistakes rather than learn from them; they have a habit of doubling-down on a wrong decision rather than changing course to avoid further failures.

• Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.your brain structure changes according to what you do.

• emphasizes how much attitude determines success or failure.

Multiple Choice

I learned that from a third-grade drop. Simple lessons, lessons like these. “Son, you’d rather be an hour early than a minute late.” We never _____ what time it was at my house because the clocks were always ahead.

• knew

• know

• thought

• think

Multiple Choice

My mother said, for nearly 30 years, my father left the house at _____ in the morning, one day, she asked him, “Why, Daddy?” He said, “Maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence.” I want to share a few things with you.

• 2.45

• 3.45

• 4.45

• 5.45

Multiple Choice

Aristotle said, “You are what you repeatedly do.” Therefore,excellence ought to be a habit, not an act." Don’t ever forget that. I know you’re tough, but always remember to be kind, always. Don’t ever forget that.

What does the above quote mean?

• Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. your brain structure changes according to what you do.

• emphasizes how much attitude determines success or failure.

• to be humble, to not put yourself above others and not think to highly of yourself.

Multiple Choice

Never _____ Mama. Mm-hmm(affirmative). If Mama ain ‘t happy, ain ‘t nobody happy. If Daddy ain ‘t happy, don’t nobody care,but I’m going to tell you.

• upset

• talkback

• backchat

• embarrass

Multiple Choice

Next lesson, lesson from a cook over there in the galley. “Son, make sure your servant’s towel is bigger than your ego.”

What does the above quote mean?

• People tend to defend mistakes rather than learn from them; they have a habit of doubling-down on a wrong decision rather than changing course to avoid further failures.

• to be humble, to not put yourself above others and not think to highly of yourself.

• Many of these people carrying on their stubborn pride for years and years a lifetime even so that’s the message you take from that that pride can be harmful if miss understood or miss used

Multiple Choice

"Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity." You all might have a

relative in mind you want to send that to.

What does the above quote mean?

• People tend to defend mistakes rather than learn from them; they have a habit of doubling-down on a wrong decision rather than changing course to avoid further failures.

• to be humble, to not put yourself above others and not think to highly of yourself.

• Many of these people carrying on their stubborn pride for years and years a lifetime even so that’s the message you take from that that pride can be harmful if miss understood or miss used

Multiple Choice

Let me say it again. "Ego is the anaesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity." "Pride is the burden of a foolish person."

What does the above quote mean?

• People tend to defend mistakes rather than learn from them; they have a habit of doubling-down on a wrong decision rather than changing course to avoid further failures.

• to be humble, to not put yourself above others and not think to highly of yourself.

• Many of these people carrying on their stubborn pride for years and years a lifetime even so that’s the message you take from that that pride can be harmful if miss understood or miss used

Multiple Choice

John Wooden coached basketball at UCLA for a living, but his calling was to impact people, and with all those national championships, guess what he was found doing in the middle of the week? Going into the cupboard, _____ a broom, and sweeping his own gym floor.

• picking

• selecting

• grabbing

• choosing

Multiple Choice

You want to make an _____? Find your broom. Every day of your life, you find your broom. You grow your influence that way. That way, you’re attracting people so that you can impact them.

• influence

• impact

• change

• effect

Multiple Choice

Final lesson. “Son, if you’re going to do a job, do it right.” I’ve always been told how average I can be,always been criticized about being average, but I want to tell you something. I stand here before you before all of these _____,

• people

• person

• persons

• peoples

Multiple Choice

not listening to those words, but telling myself every _____ day to shoot for the stars, to be the best that I can be. Good enough isn’t good enough if it can be better, and better isn’t good enough if it can be best.

• second

• no word needed

• single

• lonely

Multiple Choice

Let me close with a very personal story that I think will bring all this into focus. Wisdom will come to you in the unlikeliest of _____, a lot of times through failure.

• origins

• creators

• sources

• roots

Multiple Choice

When you hit rock bottom, remember this. While you’re struggling, rock bottom can also be a great _____ on which to build and on which to grow.

• foundation

• base

• foot

• basis

Multiple Choice

I’m not worried that you’ll be successful. I’m worried that you won’t fail from time to time. The person that gets up off the _____ and keeps growing, that’s the person that will continue to grow their influence.

• road

• canvas

• floor

• ground