II) This week , we learned a lot about various concepts such as power words, fallacies, "The Rules of the Game" and many more, but one concept we talked about in particular really stuck out to me. It was the story of a young man who, when the lives of the innocent hung in the balance, raced into action. His name was Welles Clothier. He was an ordinary person just like you and me. But when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, he became an extraordinary hero. Welles was working within one of the towers when the first plane hit and immediately, he jumped into action. Selflessly, Welles made multiple trips inside the burning building to lead survivors to safety. Its extraordinary how this man brought himself to the brink of death in order to ensure that others would live to see another day. That is true heroism. 
This sort of ties in with the six levels of motivation that we learned about this week in class
1) We do stuff so we don't get into "trouble"
2) We do things for a reward
3) We do things to please people
4) We do things because it is part of following "the rules".
5) We do things for ourselves
6a) We do things because we are thinking of others
6b) We do things because we have a personal code of ethics.
Welles didn't risk his life just to get some publicity or because he wanted to make everyone be happy with him, he went into that building because he knew that if he could do something to help those people, he had to do it. In his heart, he knew it was the right thing to do and he
In class we started discussing "what qualities are attached to heroic imagination?" A quality that goes hand in hand with heroic imagination: selflessness. One word, such a big impact. Welles was selfless, and because of that, tens of people get to see a new day. But it doesn't even have to be on that big of a scale. Every day we all have opportunities to put others before us, so why don't we do it? Is it because we are too consumed in our own lives, or are we too self-righteous to put the needs of other before our own? It makes me wonder that people could get past putting themselves first, how much of a difference in the world could we make? But would it also harm us all if we always put others first?
III) Why is it so hard to put others before ourselves?
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