Succeed in Life, It Is Because of Hard Work. Being Lucky Has Nothing to Do with Success in Life. Do You Agree or Disagree with the Quotation Above? Give Specific Reasons and Examples to Support Your Position.

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Success is a combination of many factors. Many believe that it is hard work that bring them success, others think that luck is more important. I totally agree with the quotation, because I believe that success comes from hard work, as Newton said “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration”. People often believe that luck is something that is beyond our control. How can we know when we get a big contract? How can we predict when our experiment give way for a new discovery? I disagree with this kind of belief. In my opinion, luck is the combination of events that occurs on a basis of probability. If that is true, we can increase our chance of meeting a positive outcome if we can improve the conditions. A bussiness man trying to contact as many customer as possible will surely have a greater chance of getting good contracts. He cannot just sit still in his office and wait for some kind of “luck”. How can a client contact him without he trying to broadcast himself first? In this case, “luck” is something that he can affect, at least to some extent. This also happen in the field of science. Many example, like the discovery of penicillin, is associated with luck. But I think that, what if Flemming is not a hard-working person? What if he not perform so much experiment as he did? He will not likely to have the spore land on his sample without performing so much experiment, with so much sample dishes. So much that the chance for such an event become great enough to occur. I believe we can increase our chance of success by affecting the probability of good outcome, by improve the situation sothat we are more likely to have a “luck”. Another point that people often miss when appraise luck is the important of being prepared. Justin Bieber, a famous singer make his debut when his youtube clip catchs the eye of a recording company. People may

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