The Four Pillars
Course To Success: Everything You Need To Succeed Beyond School is a comprehensive guide for business students and young professionals. But success is relative and far from absolute. In order to provide students with a framework to define, formulate and achieve their goals, four theories are used. These "pillars" are:
- Plato's Principle of Specialization: This theory is used to help guide students to choose their Major. By explaining how Plato formulates his utopian society, students can better weigh the different factors that determine which area to concentrate on in school. Students can also extend this application to find out which professions would allow them to maximize their potential upon graduation.
- Freud's Division of Mind theory: Freud remains one of the most influential thinkers in psychology and general culture to this day. While Freud's theory applied to newborns and how they have to develop themselves, this book uses the theory to help graduating students balance their own insatiable needs with the greater good.
- The Chinese principle of Yin-Yang: Success in one's professional life is important to lead a fulfilling life; however, all work and no play usually leads to an unhealthy life and state of mind. It is for this reason that balance is key. Hence, this principle is a recurring theme throughout the book: both in terms of balancing people's needs with profit as well as with balancing one's own social, personal and professional needs.
- Gestalt psychology: Given that this book offers plenty of examples in sports at both the amateur and professional level, team work is a topic that comes up often. As a result, Gestalt theory is introduced to readers in order to determine whether a team is greater than the sum of its parts. This question is also crossed over into the classroom and business setting.
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