I thought that it was hilarious that companies will lose stock after they win some sort of award or venture further into the business world. For example, Chrysler declined by 70% after receiving the Time Person of the Year award. I would be willing to bet that they manufactured more then what they would sell so they ended up loosing money instead of making it. Their self-confidence in their company led them to believe that they wouldn't fall from the heavenly heights that they had been at when they received the award. I thought it was interesting that companies that named stadiums after themselves had financial trouble. I started to wonder if maybe they made the poor choice of trying to do something that they couldn't afford so fell from their fame. This can be connected to the idea that these godly figures fall from fame in tragedy. "Hubris goes out of its way to let you know of its existence while humility does not". This made me laugh because people are seriously all too happy to admit their achievements but as soon as they fail, heaven forbid it gets out that they are actually human and they can have things happen to them as well. People are always trying to improve and don't realize that if you are over self-confident you will enter a tragedy and fall from the great heights of such people like Oedipus and Kreon.
I'm going to connect the idea that man experiences tragedy when they evaluate themselves justly. They realize that they aren't as good as what they were. I can imagine that the owners of the companies that declined like that were extremely upset in the fact that they thought they would do better after receiving the award yet they didn't. It would have been upsetting for them not to meet the expectations set out for them after winning the award. Can this not be seen as a tragedy? Doesn't everyone hate loosing money? And tragedy is something that everyone experiences at some point or another. It is something that cannot be avoided no matter how hard a person might try. Tragedy will always be part of the human experience but I don't think many people will have it any other way. Doesn't failing make us more successful? Doesn't it say something about a person when they are able to keep trying after multiple failures? I think that those people, the people who have the most scars from tragedy, are the most successful people. So is it really all that tragic to experience a tragedy? It may seem so at the time, but even companies like Chrysler can pick themselves up and try again. Because nearly 100 years later, Chrysler is still in business and that is because they did not give up after they declined by 70%.
I'm going to connect the idea that man experiences tragedy when they evaluate themselves justly. They realize that they aren't as good as what they were. I can imagine that the owners of the companies that declined like that were extremely upset in the fact that they thought they would do better after receiving the award yet they didn't. It would have been upsetting for them not to meet the expectations set out for them after winning the award. Can this not be seen as a tragedy? Doesn't everyone hate loosing money? And tragedy is something that everyone experiences at some point or another. It is something that cannot be avoided no matter how hard a person might try. Tragedy will always be part of the human experience but I don't think many people will have it any other way. Doesn't failing make us more successful? Doesn't it say something about a person when they are able to keep trying after multiple failures? I think that those people, the people who have the most scars from tragedy, are the most successful people. So is it really all that tragic to experience a tragedy? It may seem so at the time, but even companies like Chrysler can pick themselves up and try again. Because nearly 100 years later, Chrysler is still in business and that is because they did not give up after they declined by 70%.