Topic 51

51. Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning. In your opinion, what does success come from? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

METICULOUS SCHEDULE HELPS MUCH MORE

Some of us hold that accomplishment in career or life is from taking risks or catching appropriate opportunities, while still other people believe that one's successful life primarily depends on meticulous plans. In my observation, however, careful planning plays a much more pivotal role in helping a person approach attainments than venturing dose. There are a couples of reasons to reason.

As a threshold matter, in specific cases, venturing does work positive effects on individual progress. This may be true in business. For instance, Bill Gates, the former Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation, made up his mind to share profits from authorizing the first operating system to IBM, instead of absolutely selling to IBM. This action performed by Bill Gates was considered quite risky at the period, which has been proved to be a wise decision several years later.

However, Bill Gates's fulfillment is only one single example in which fortune works. In many other accomplished cases, positive influences of carefully designed schedule overwhelm those of fortune. Consider, for example, Edison's invention of the incandescent lamp. It is highly impossible of taking chances to choose innumerous materials for lamp in random, instead of prudentially comparing every pair of matter in each control group.

Furthermore, fortune will patronize a person only on condition that this man or woman has been being striving for his or her goal for quite a long time under well-planned time table. Without lucubrating late in night, a student may never have opportunity of attending a prominent university or college, no matter how "lucky" he or she is. Perhaps the paradigmatic example is Don Quijote, though he is a protagonist in novel. Don fails to attain any meaningful gain with his volatile behavior. On the other hand, Don may gain a lot with help from careful planning.

In summary, a meticulously regulated schedule is much more paramount than a hard-to-catch venture. Then, in the final analysis, I consider that enormous accomplishments come from careful planning, and taking risks or chances will not help much without fundamental functions of working out a feasible plan.