Ben Carson

Ben Carson

• Carson was the director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital in Maryland from 1984 until his retirement in 2013. Carson has achieved many great things such as the first and only successful surgery on Siamese twins joined at the back of the head,  pioneering the first successful neurosurgical procedure on a fetus inside the womb, performing the first completely successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins, developing new methods to treat brain-stem tumors and reviving hemispherectomy techniques for controlling. He also ran for president for this election but decided that he didn't see "not see a political path forward".
• His excellence was achieved through vast studying and practice. Carson has graduated from Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School, and has written multiple books.
• Technology has impacted Carson through many ways. For one, as a surgeon you need specific tools to use, and, without those tools being made and manufactured by machines, he wouldn't be able to perform. Also, Carson owes some of his fame to technology; without his books and his movie that both require technology to be made and distributed, he wouldn't have been so famous.

Reflection: I think that Carson is an excellent example of an "Arete Excellence". Even though his recent political views and recent comments towards the current republican nominee, Trump, are less than admirable, his excellence and skill are certainly admirable and astonishing.