Topic 10

Topic: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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