Myron Rolle will pick Oxford instead of the upcoming NFL draft. Rolle recently earned a Rhodes scholarship in November and plans to seek a one-year master’s degree in medical anthropology. The Future is Bright for Rolle and TFiB wishes him the best. This story is a continuation of a post on Myron Rolle’s Rhodes Scholar win.

I recently was able to meet Myron Rolle at the 4th Annual Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. National Founder’s Day Celebration in Charlotte, NC this past Saturday. Rolle, a Theta Eta chapter initiate of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. gave a moving award acceptance speech for the fraternity’s 2nd ever ‘Creating Inspiration’ award. The presenters of the award included a past Kappa Alpha Psi Rhodes Scholar winner.

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begin with two beliefs–”that the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.”

The above is taken from a recent post on Malcolm Gladwell’s blog from writer David Brooke’s New York Times column on Gladwell’s third book, “Outliers.”

The Foundation

The foundation for success rests on a belief that the future must be superior to the past and that you have the ability as an individual to make it manifest. The Future is Bright (TFiB) Manifesto speaks to the point that Generation Y has the greatest opportunity (more than any other previous generation) to epitmoize ’success.’

Nature v. Nurture

Talent has been described as intangible force as well as merely consistent excellence. These two sides both tackle the issue of nature v. nurture. Talent as an intangible force is closely related to the genes that we inherit from our family as supposed to talent as consisent excellence which would share a similarity with how we are raised and the environment we encounter. Thus the reason nature has become challenged by Gladwell where in his book “Outliers” he examines how social forces trump the individual prowess of a person.

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