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TOEFL writing sample
10. "When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing
to do with success." Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above?
Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
"When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do
with success. " Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use
specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
I fully agree with the claim that there is no correlation between
success and luck. Moreover, I understand success to refer to one's
ability to achieve the predominant part of his goals in his lifetime,
which in turn leads to a correlation between success and income since
the accomplishment of such a natural goal as to provide a good future
for your loved ones demands the means. What is the simplest and most
lawful way to earn enough to consider yourself a successful person? To
receive a good education and to find a good job. Both receiving an
education and making a career presuppose one's readiness to work hard,
and success without hard work is simply not possible for the vast
majority of the world's population. The reasons and examples listed
below will strengthen my point of view.
First of all, considering an education and a career as key factors of
success, one will choose to pursue a degree from a college or a
university. One wishing to be admitted to the university will have to
take several tests. It is doubtful that someone will be so lucky that
knowing nothing, he could pass the test with a high score. A low score
means failure, and that test taker will not likely be admitted.
Therefore, in order to be successful, one should prepare for the tests
and work hard, because a good education will provide him with a good job
and an opportunity to accomplish some of his goals and dreams. In my
lifetime, I have never met a person who could graduate from a college
without working hard.
Secondly, it is impossible to make a career if one is indolent and
lacking knowledge, at least in developed countries. Luck plays no role
in achieving this success. Even if someone was unbelievably lucky enough
to become a manager not being qualified enough, he will be asked to
resign in the near future because of his inability due to lack of
knowledge and experience to make right decisions. For instance, I used
to work for a very small company owned by a friend. This company was
later closed because of bankruptcy. The cause of bankruptcy was wrong
strategies and decisions made by the owner. After the failure, he went
to a university and worked for another company so that he could obtain
experience and become a successful businessman. Nowadays, he considers
himself a successful person because he had turned into reality his two
biggest dreams of producing consumer goods of high quality and making
charitable donations to needy people.
In sum, as long as someone understands success as an ability to turn
into reality some of his dreams and goals, he will have to work hard
because he will need money. And his chances to earn that money will
remarkably increase if he could graduate from a college and make a
career. All of these things are simply not possible without hard work.
Luck has no place in such a scheme of events.
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