Problem
1. What kinds of things are the people in each source excellent at?
2. Where does excellence come from? Is it something only some people are born with? Is it a gift from the gods? Can you learn to be excellent?
3. What does excellence look like? What does a lack of excellence look like?
4. How do the excellent behave? How do their opposites behave?
5. What kind of metaphors does each writer use to explain what the excellent person is like?
6. What different kinds of excellence do these excerpts illustrate? How are they different and how are they alike?