Luck vs Hard Work
Writing & Communication
Persuasive Essay Assignment
Quote used:
7. “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist.
Any person who has exercised endeavors striving for success would be familiar with the conflict between hard work and luck as the limiting factors of long term achievement. Some people liberate themselves of all responsibility and leave everything to chance. While others, leave no stones unturned in attempt to induce the highest degrees of perfectionism in their work. People switch from one work ethic to other and from one success strategy to other trying to answer the ever notorious question that, “How actually do I become successful?”
Stephen Leacock says, “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Therefore, in the end it all boils down to good, old-fashioned hard work. Hard work ensures actual success since hard work teaches us more in the long run, acquisition of luck itself depends upon hard work and luck is just naively unpredictable.
The road towards achieving success through hard work is an enriching experience. Compare the two scenarios: Firstly, a person who aces a job interview because s/he carefully researched and deliberated over the company’s selection criteria and worked hard towards polishing their eloquence and personality. And secondly, a person who attempts an interview excels their job interview just because “it was a good sort of day” or “the interviewer was luckily in a pleasant mood”. The first person would have a more prosperous tenure at the company as s/he’d be better acquainted with the internal mechanisms of working at the company. Furthermore, the first person would have acquired a lot of valuable skills through her/his hard work that the second person’s lax, fate-relying attitude deprived her/him of. A complacent dependence on good fortune may seriously cripple the chances of emerging as
Persuasive Essay Assignment
Quote used:
7. “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Stephen Leacock, economist and humorist.
Any person who has exercised endeavors striving for success would be familiar with the conflict between hard work and luck as the limiting factors of long term achievement. Some people liberate themselves of all responsibility and leave everything to chance. While others, leave no stones unturned in attempt to induce the highest degrees of perfectionism in their work. People switch from one work ethic to other and from one success strategy to other trying to answer the ever notorious question that, “How actually do I become successful?”
Stephen Leacock says, “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Therefore, in the end it all boils down to good, old-fashioned hard work. Hard work ensures actual success since hard work teaches us more in the long run, acquisition of luck itself depends upon hard work and luck is just naively unpredictable.
The road towards achieving success through hard work is an enriching experience. Compare the two scenarios: Firstly, a person who aces a job interview because s/he carefully researched and deliberated over the company’s selection criteria and worked hard towards polishing their eloquence and personality. And secondly, a person who attempts an interview excels their job interview just because “it was a good sort of day” or “the interviewer was luckily in a pleasant mood”. The first person would have a more prosperous tenure at the company as s/he’d be better acquainted with the internal mechanisms of working at the company. Furthermore, the first person would have acquired a lot of valuable skills through her/his hard work that the second person’s lax, fate-relying attitude deprived her/him of. A complacent dependence on good fortune may seriously cripple the chances of emerging as