![]() And this truth has repeatedly appeared in my life! My parents have always told me that if you really want something and work at it, you will see things happen your way. You will be surprised at what happened after that! I will leave you to find it out for yourself.Īnyways, this is very similar to my story. When Ben Carson heard the words of his mother, he turned to God and prayed, wondering how he would come up against the questions that awaited his chemistry test the following day. "Bennie, you can do it! Why, son, you can do anything you want, and you can do it better than anybody else. And in the midst of the recognition of one's lower intelligence amongst those around (which is an error in perception to begin with), he was very close to giving up when his mother's voice rang in his head, that said, The similar thing had been experienced by Ben Carson when he got into Yale. I recall that when I had joined the MBBS college in Kolkata which wasn't the one I would have liked to be in (something pretty irrelevant in shaping a person as a good doctor, but unknown to me back then), I felt enormously felled in esteem in the initial months, watching myself circled by students around who had cracked bigger entrance exams many of which I had failed. So often she copied other people's books to create her own. She came from very humble beginnings and economy, and never had books of her own to study. Come what may, and she will still make her dream come true. She is just the same, she won't stop at anything to get what she wants. Many lessons I learnt from the book, one of them is- “I am going to get my life situation straightened out," said by the unbending stamina of a woman, Sonya, Carson's mother herself, when her life spirals downwards many times, in between her jobs in people's homes, a divorce, and the consistent pile of motivation she had ready for her sons just so they never had to take any notice whatsoever of her hidden struggle and depression. The book helped me trust that in moments of ridicule and shame that the world is wont to grant (I faced many at workplaces), you have the power of God that is willing you forth with massive amounts of endurance and peace that is beyond anybody's reach. Just recently she had been telling me to climb higher and higher in my path, motivating me by stating, "If you are determined, nothing can stop you, no bad criticism, nothing." The lessons I am learning from the book match closely with those my mother teaches me so often. My mother has always pushed me to take challenges with a pinch of salt and wade through them with a smile like she has always done. I see Sonya as a reminder of my own mother. This is the story of a ghetto boy hailing from the streets of Detroit, who climbs monumental rungs of obstacles and challenges (so much 'nigger' statements and ridicule included) to finally become a renowned paediatric neurosurgeon in the John Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, Maryland. Reading about this book overwhelmed me with this truth I have always recognised in fragments but never quite as deeply as I am doing now. When I recollect my childhood and years in medicine, I now recognise in explicit cognition, just how much my parents have sacrificed to get me where it is I am. I personally think this is a book every healthcare individual must read! Period! But others will derive a lot from the book too! It has real moral lessons, values, and inspiration to be taken from it, and I would recomend that anybody who has ANY time at all, should read it. He's quite inspirational because of his less than noble background. The voice is powerful and has a sincere tone to it throughout.īen Carson, being a pediatric neurosurgeon, is perhaps the best in the world, having discovered several medical techniques that are used even today, and maybe his greatest contribution, he perfected the hemispherectomy. ![]() If its being rated for writing style, it gets 5 stars. If it's being rated by emotional investment, it gets 5 stars. ![]() I, at least, felt his struggles, victories, and failures quite strongly. The whole story of his life is inspiring, and the book causes you to become very emotionaly attached to Ben Carson as a character.
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