Does luck have anything to do with success?
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There is a proverb said that chance favors the prepared mind. I believe in that. Prepared mind means hardworking, ongoing study, persevering, and being more professional etc. No doubt, the key factor of success is on yourself, but not on luck. As a Chinese saying said "Man proposes, God disposes".
I am a hard-working man, when I set a goal to do something, I will try my best to do it whatever the final result is successful or failed. Although I am so lucky that I have passed many exams in many times, I attribute these success to my hardworking and perseverance. For example, I past my college entrance exam, which entrance ratio was about 1:30 before sixteen years ago, and I past my postgraduate entrance exam, which entrance ratio was lower and competition was harder than a exam I have ever taken before. There is a little skill or technique in exam although, most of time is preparation for it, such as studying and reviewing, just as a saying said "No pain, No gain". After graduated from school, as a salary man or a businessman, working hard is also considered as an important performance assessment point in most of companies. I can still remember that before five years ago I took on a new project and was assigned as a key role faced directly with customer of Japan. It was a big challenge for me that I was a new comer in that business field and the delivery date was so urgent that no enough time to study and to take job training gradually. I worked very late every day and took my spare time to investigate problems and collect solutions. At last, customer was satisfied with my hard-working altitude and made a contrast with my company.
There are also many stories about how working hard is important for success. For example, Tomas Edison, the great and intelligent inventor, had done thousands of experiments before finding a final solution for the short life duration problem of light bulb. Also, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang has been famous in the world. Behind his honor and success was that he was practicing very hard every day when he was only three years old. Because of his hard-working and talented performance, he gained his first chance to attend an international contest and got a champion. As his first performing was successful in the international stage, then by his continuous hard-working, he got many chances to show his talented performance and becomes more and more successful in the world music stage.
At last, as "Man proposes, God dispose" referred previously, luck is not considered as an important factor for most of successful people, but in some situations, luck may be important to you, for example, when you buy a lottery, make a bet with someone or get an unpredicted trouble. I think such things are seldom occurred and rarely happened to you. If things you are going to do are not decided by luck, just try your best.
I am a hard-working man, when I set a goal to do something, I will try my best to do it whatever the final result is successful or failed. Although I am so lucky that I have passed many exams in many times, I attribute these success to my hardworking and perseverance. For example, I past my college entrance exam, which entrance ratio was about 1:30 before sixteen years ago, and I past my postgraduate entrance exam, which entrance ratio was lower and competition was harder than a exam I have ever taken before. There is a little skill or technique in exam although, most of time is preparation for it, such as studying and reviewing, just as a saying said "No pain, No gain". After graduated from school, as a salary man or a businessman, working hard is also considered as an important performance assessment point in most of companies. I can still remember that before five years ago I took on a new project and was assigned as a key role faced directly with customer of Japan. It was a big challenge for me that I was a new comer in that business field and the delivery date was so urgent that no enough time to study and to take job training gradually. I worked very late every day and took my spare time to investigate problems and collect solutions. At last, customer was satisfied with my hard-working altitude and made a contrast with my company.
There are also many stories about how working hard is important for success. For example, Tomas Edison, the great and intelligent inventor, had done thousands of experiments before finding a final solution for the short life duration problem of light bulb. Also, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang has been famous in the world. Behind his honor and success was that he was practicing very hard every day when he was only three years old. Because of his hard-working and talented performance, he gained his first chance to attend an international contest and got a champion. As his first performing was successful in the international stage, then by his continuous hard-working, he got many chances to show his talented performance and becomes more and more successful in the world music stage.
At last, as "Man proposes, God dispose" referred previously, luck is not considered as an important factor for most of successful people, but in some situations, luck may be important to you, for example, when you buy a lottery, make a bet with someone or get an unpredicted trouble. I think such things are seldom occurred and rarely happened to you. If things you are going to do are not decided by luck, just try your best.
There is a proverb that says: Chance favors the prepared mind.
No doubt, the key factor of success is on yourself, but and not on luck.
In contrast, a Chinese saying goes: "Man proposes, God disposes".
I am a hard-working man, when I set a goal to do something, I will try my best to achieve it. (whether the final result is success or failure).
Although I am so lucky that I have passed many exams in many times, and I attribute these successes to my hardworking and perseverance, and not luck.
For example, I passed my college entrance exam, for which the passing rate was about 1 in 30, more than sixteen years ago, and I passed my postgraduate entrance exam, where the passing rate was lower and the competition was harder than any exam I had ever taken.
There is a little skill or technique associated with taking exams although, but most of the time it is the preparation for it, such as studying and reviewing that determines success, just as the saying : "No pain, no gain".
After graduating from school, as a salaried employee or a businessman, working hard is also considered as an important performance assessment point / criterion in most of companies.
I can still remember that before more than five years ago, I took on a new project and was assigned as a the key customer facing role with the Japanese customer.
It was a big challenge for me that as I was a newcomer in that business field and the delivery date was so (urgent /) short that there was (not enough/) insufficient time to study and (to take/) attend job training (gradually).
I worked very late every day and took used my spare time to investigate problems and collect data / research solutions.
At last,/ Finally the customer was satisfied with my hard-working altitude and made signed a contract with my company.
For example, Thomas Edison, the great and intelligent inventor, who had (done/)carried out thousands of experiments before finding /discovering a final solution for the short life (duration) problem of the light bulb.
Also, the Chinese pianist, Lang Lang (has been famous) who has achieved world wide fame.
Behind his (honor and) / The reason for his success was that he was practiced very hard every day (when he was only three years old/) from the age of three.
Because of his hard-working and talented performance, he gained his first chance to attend an international contest/competition and got a became the champion.
As his From this first performance was successful in the international stage, then by and through his continued hard-work, he got many chances to show his talented performance and became more and more successful on the world music stage.
At last, as "Man proposes, God dispose" referred previously, luck is not considered as an important factor for most of successful people. However in some situations, luck may be important to you, for example, when you buy a lottery, make a bet with someone or get out of an unforseen trouble. ('luck' used in this way, usually mean good luck)
I think such things are seldom occurred though. (and rarely happened to you.) (chong fu le)