--From testmagic.com
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.
