You have attained menschhood.
None have attained his punch.
That "Big Law" life that's often glorified is really a nightmare for most young lawyers and let's be clear that so few lawyers get to attain that life.
For nearly every single product that is marketed towards men, he is there: the heterosexual Adonis who, dressed in nothing more than a tiny white towel, explains what type of shaving cream and soda men should get to attain ultimate maleness.
While there have always been familial and social pressures to perform academically, and while some people have always attempted to get or attain something with the least amount of energy expended, I would ask what effects has our age of standardization, corporatization, globalization, privatization, and deregulation of the business, banking, and corporate sectors have on learning?
Begin attaining necessary skill set.
John Wooden, the legendary U.C.L.A. basketball coach, a gentleman on and off the court, wrote to me last year: "In 1934 I coined my own definition for success, which I tried to personally attain and get all my students to attain.
"Some men see the loss of a job, or the loss of a mate, as irrevocable and catastrophic, something they can't get back or attain again," said David Buss, author of "The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex" (Free Press, 2000) and a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Time magazine's cover take on the King phenomenon this week sees an even broader canvas for e-culture: the Net is becoming a "global talent show" in which any amateur novelist, musician or filmmaker can take to the Internet to "get discovered and attain stardom".
After reading hundreds of cookbooks, you may have the feeling that every recipe, every cookbook, is an attempt to get you to attain this ideal sugar-salt-saturated-fat state without having to see it head on, just as every love poem is an attempt to maneuver a girl or a boy into bed by talking as fast, and as eloquently, as possible about something else.
The characters don't have to be good people or they don't even have to have admirable goals, yet because of the way the story is told, you end up wanting them to get something or attain some goal.
