While Gwyneth Paltrow was standing in line for the movie, she ran into Steven Spielberg. She immediately accepted Spielberg’s offer to play a brief role in one of his movies. This is the story of how Gwyneth Patrow stepped into movie industry and became a well-known figure. Thus, some people may think that Gwyneth Paltrow was so lucky that she saw one of the best American directors accidentally and succeeded. But, I totally disagree with it. Successful people have some special characteristics which others do not have them or do not pay attention to them. Love, specific goals, perseverance, etc lead them to accomplish their dreams.Love is driving force for success. Because of her passion for acting career, Gwyneth Paltrow dropped out of her university and studied acting for several years. In an interview with The Guardian, she told that she loves what she does. In other words, more concentration and carefulness are used as a result of enthusiasm. So, the task would probably be perfect and brings much more success. And, being succeeded motivates to work passionately. On the other side, people who claim that they are unlucky do not love what they are doing. For example, my colleague chose her job because her friend was studying the same field. Therefore, to compete with her friend, she studied sociology and inevitably worked in that area. Now, she is unsuccessful and an ignorant sociologist. Hence, love for the job is an essential factor to be succeeded.Setting a specific goal is another element. Successful people know what they want out of their life. So, they plan and work hard in order to achieve it. One the other hand, a person without any specific goal is like a ship lost at the sea and wind takes it everywhere. Goals are like compass showing the right direction.In addition to setting purpose, perseverance plays a major role. Richard Marx, American singer and musician, was rejected by most record companies in Los Angeles or “Rocky” script was discarded by many directors in Hollywood. But, it ended up winning ten Academy Awards. Most people give up when they face such situations and consequently, they interpret them as misfortune. But, successful people are like stamps. They stick to their goals until they get to the destination.In the end, I think the usage of the word luck is just an excuse to cover laziness. It is easy to give up rather than to work hard. I do not think that the failure of 100 attempts by Thomas Edison or rejection of Sylver Stallone’s script contribute to fortune. But, this shows how much they have been persistent, goal-oriented and passionate.This article is not grammatically correct so if you are interested, you can listen to the corrected audio version of the text. I very much appreciate dear Bill for the correction of the essay. Here it comes:TOEFL essay 6.wma
That's great, according to your essay, 3 major points are essential in order to be succeessful: love, goal and perseverance.
I think, we can merge love and perseverance in one; infact true love appears when someone shows his/her continuous attempting to reach the object
In my view, another point is neccessary to be succeedful and that is the way (method) of acheiving goal.
sometimes we can find this method easily (maybe, we call them as a good chance or luck) but it is often difficult and should work hard to find the method....
and something more, we have a proverb in Farsi: " If you get something easily, then you'll lose it easliy too". It means that the value of something (such as goal) isn't for the sake of the goal but because of our attempting to achive it.
Finally, we can call luck truley, if we can see the overall good effects of it in his/her life not in a short period of life; I believe that if someone act faithfully in life then he/she will get the blessing of the universe (GOD) soon or later. so we can call it luck or not, but the universe work its business!
I have no idea what happend to both your comment and salim's comment. I never do censor the comments. This is not my attitude to censor anyhing. So, I am so sorry for this. It's so shameful. In fact, it is always my pleasure to see my friend's comments here. I will look for the reason why this has happend. So, I really appologize for this shame. It is so embarrassing.
Ohhh, where did my secong post go ? I don't see it here anymore ! What happened ? did i write something wrong that could have been censured, or do i have a problem with the website ? Would be nice to have an explanation abut this.
manuela
Thank you so much for your opinion. I feel lucky but I do not believe in luck. I feel lucky because I tried so hard. And, also, imagine you do not know anything about astronomy or any other subject that you do not any information about, if you want to pass a test in that matter, can you get a good score only by sitting and thinking? It is not possible even if you are so lucky you can not write about it. So, in my opinion, luck is nothing but trying. Because when you sit somewhere and do nothing, nothing will happen, you have to do something so that something happens.
To tell you the truth, I do not know something as luck. I think if we do all our efforts and still can not get what we want is because that thing is not good for us and in fact, the universe guides us into another direction. So, I do not call this luck. However, if you give me some examples, I may get what you mean.
Though i absolutly believe hard work and perceverance are the main keys to sucess, i do not agree that "luck is just an excuse to cover laziness." I know some people who never gave up and who worked very hard all their life to succeed, but as they were so close to reach their goal, something happened and they could not make it. I believe we all know people to whom such thing happened.
To my opinion, sometimes, and who knows why, it is not enough to be goal-oriented, persistent or passionate. There should be a little luck too :))
Once again your essay is intersting and very well done. Bravo Nafis, i know you will succeed.
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That's great, according to your essay, 3 major points are essential in order to be succeessful: love, goal and perseverance.
I think, we can merge love and perseverance in one; infact true love appears when someone shows his/her continuous attempting to reach the object
In my view, another point is neccessary to be succeedful and that is the way (method) of acheiving goal.
sometimes we can find this method easily (maybe, we call them as a good chance or luck) but it is often difficult and should work hard to find the method....
and something more, we have a proverb in Farsi: " If you get something easily, then you'll lose it easliy too". It means that the value of something (such as goal) isn't for the sake of the goal but because of our attempting to achive it.
Finally, we can call luck truley, if we can see the overall good effects of it in his/her life not in a short period of life; I believe that if someone act faithfully in life then he/she will get the blessing of the universe (GOD) soon or later. so we can call it luck or not, but the universe work its business!
All the best :)
I have no idea what happend to both your comment and salim's comment. I never do censor the comments. This is not my attitude to censor anyhing. So, I am so sorry for this. It's so shameful. In fact, it is always my pleasure to see my friend's comments here. I will look for the reason why this has happend. So, I really appologize for this shame. It is so embarrassing.
With love,
Nafis
Ohhh, where did my secong post go ? I don't see it here anymore ! What happened ? did i write something wrong that could have been censured, or do i have a problem with the website ? Would be nice to have an explanation abut this.
manuela
Thank you so much for your opinion. I feel lucky but I do not believe in luck. I feel lucky because I tried so hard. And, also, imagine you do not know anything about astronomy or any other subject that you do not any information about, if you want to pass a test in that matter, can you get a good score only by sitting and thinking? It is not possible even if you are so lucky you can not write about it. So, in my opinion, luck is nothing but trying. Because when you sit somewhere and do nothing, nothing will happen, you have to do something so that something happens.
Thanks a lot,
Have a great day,
Nafis
To tell you the truth, I do not know something as luck. I think if we do all our efforts and still can not get what we want is because that thing is not good for us and in fact, the universe guides us into another direction. So, I do not call this luck. However, if you give me some examples, I may get what you mean.
Though i absolutly believe hard work and perceverance are the main keys to sucess, i do not agree that "luck is just an excuse to cover laziness." I know some people who never gave up and who worked very hard all their life to succeed, but as they were so close to reach their goal, something happened and they could not make it. I believe we all know people to whom such thing happened.
To my opinion, sometimes, and who knows why, it is not enough to be goal-oriented, persistent or passionate. There should be a little luck too :))
Once again your essay is intersting and very well done. Bravo Nafis, i know you will succeed.
Sending you love and kisses .
manuela