No talking.

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself#t-5088

During this TED Talk the speaker, Derek Sivers, talks about the mycology of achieving goals. Essentially, he concludes based on other people’s investigation into the topic that, one should not tell others their intention of achieving a goal. When one tells other about their goals they get the satisfaction close to if they were actually going to achieve their goal. However, if someone does not tell other people their goal they do not gain any satisfaction until they have actually finished their goal.

Darek Sivers is an entrepreneur who's main intention during this presentation is to debunk a common misconception. His intended audience is very general. It apply's to nearly everyone, specifically those who tell others their goals. He uses a lot of pop culture references to keep the audience involved and interested in his message. In addition he uses the PowerPoint behind him to help simplify the experiment a physiologist used. 

The speaker of this talk uses ethos. He cites three mycologists that have researched the topic and one who had carried out an experiment. This brings validity to his argument because when the topic is first brought up the audiences natural response is opposite of the speakers argument.

I chose this because I agreed with the title, "Keep your goals to yourself." I usually do not like to inform others about my goals and aspirations. When someone is constantly telling others about what they are going to achieve in life they can appear to be a showoff and often times do not actually achieve the goals that they had wanted to. I agree with the speaker in that people receive a sense of gratification when they tell others their goal, but I think most of the time they do no achieve them because the end result is too difficult to attain, not because they have already received satisfaction.  

Double Indemnity

In the film Double Indemnity, there is nearly no one with solid moral character. In my opinion the two main characters Walter and Phyllis both are not hero’s and are very far from being anywhere close to being considered decent people. However, I do think only Phyllis would be classified as a villain. She was the spark behind the entire operation and pushed Walter Neff into motion. Walter was living a solid life before he met Phyllis whereas Phyllis had been accused by her step daughter of killing someone before.  The only person I would classify as a hero in this movie is Barton Keys.

Throughout the film Keys was routinely trying to figure out the truth about the story and not trying to manipulate someone or get away with anything. Keys is always trying to find out what actually happened and who is to blame. Like all heroes’ Keys also has a tragic flaw. He is too trusting to those who he knows. This is shown when he says the will personally vouch that Walter did not commit the murder of Mr. Dietrichson. This also exemplifies that Keys assumes that other people are as morally true as he is. However, this assumption later backfires in the end of the movie.