THINK BIG

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The Big Picture

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No Excuses

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THE BIG PICTURE

"Reading is a way of life," says Dr. Carson.

In a modern world that idolizes the exploits of entertainment and sports figures, young people are at particular risk of missing life's "big picture" - the rich variety of outlooks, professions, and achievements available to all willing to broaden their horizons and perspectives. Dr. Ben Carson calls upon young people to study themselves, to identify their God-given talents, and then to seek out individuals, mentors, who can help them develop them.

Convinced of his own inability in childhood to excel in school or improve his circumstances, Dr. Carson has a particular affinity with children and adolescents who fear failure and have no vision of success. Attributing his own turn around to a mother who refused to let him surrender to all the excuses for failure, he is a man with a mission to show others the way to self-respect, self-confidence, and personal and professional success.

Students who excel academically, read extensively, says Carson. When he was a boy, his mother made reading a mandatory exercise in her sons' lives. At a young age Carson experienced the power of knowledge, acquired from reading books. With information at his command, he experienced academic success for the first time, to the astonishment of teachers and other students who had expected as little of him as he had expected of himself.