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Agree or Not? “When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”
Millions if not billions of people are aiming for success and strive to be a successful person. However, not everyone achieves their goal. Is it because they are unlucky despite their hard work? Or is it because others are luckier? In my opinion, both luck and hard work hard are required to be a successful person.I disagree with the quotation above for two main reasons.
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Firstly, I believe working hard without luck demonstrates to society that the person is diligent but it doesn't guarantee success. For example, I worked hard on my studies last semester, but I happened to have a stomach-ache on the test date, so I couldn’t do well on that test. Another time I was lucky and bumped into my American friend who quizzed me about the test topics for the TOEFL speaking section in the next few hours. However, if I hadn’t prepared well for that test and got too nervous while I did it, then luck would not have helped me get a good score.
Secondly, from my point of view, working hard on something doesn’t mean a person can do the thing well. For example, I once worked hard reading a book and tried to remember all the content, while my friend read it and questioned some of the issues so she figured them out logically. In the exam, I answered the questions by writing down all the content I had read, while my friend answered by referring to the content in the book and applied it to real situations. So she got a top score while I just got an average score.
In conclusion, I strongly disagree with the claim that people succeed because of hard work alone, without any luck. Additionally, if people work hard without thinking logically, they won't achieve their goals.
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