Suffering into Success
The geographical culture can transcend into success in a way by what is happening around the people that give them an advantage in a successful life. Filmmaker Christopher Dillon Quinn made a documentary named “God Grew Tired of Us” about three Sudanese men known to be part as the lost boys of Sudan who have been through hell and back but at the end of all the suffering, they become successful. One of the men Quinn interviews in his documentary is John Bul Dau; he ran away from home with the rest of the camp refugees when he was very young because of the war, losing his family and becoming independent. Dau is now a president of his own nonprofit foundation to help his homeland and is starting a clinic in the camp he was raised in. Dau’s life is full of surprises, especially when his worst caused by his demographic and geographic part of his life, leaves him towards his best. …show more content…
After Dau was forced to take on a leadership role for so many years it is clear that he has the experience to become a leader. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell he writes about how there is a study called the 10,000-hour rule which is “in fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” (pg.40). After Dau, has been taking on a leadership role for fifteen or more years we can only imagine that he has completed those 10,000 hours which Gladwell explains is the key number for expertise which is the reason why Dau is so successful in being the president of his