Jiayi Guo Essay

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Jiayi Guo
RC4C
Professor Allen
March 23, 2015
Do you agree or disagree the following statement? Successful people take new things and take risks rather than the thing that they have done well.
Success, it can be argued, is on the true meaning of doing something extremely well. We don not have any definitions about who is successful or not. Knowing how to achieve success is everyone’s goal. Hence, there comes to the topic of whether successful people try new things and take risks rather than do the thing that they have done well. I have my own reasons why I agree with the statement that successful people try new things and take risks.
First, successful people can learn important and very valuable points from trying new things. There are always interesting and useful experiences that successful people can learn them only by trying new things. Such as Steve Jobs, if he did not try to create new technological and electronic products. We will never know what are the 3G even though 4G phone. He and his teams invented a large of surprises for human. On the contrast, if Steve Jobs did not opened a company and his team also did not learn something new. They just sold that we have already appeared electronics. Successful people must absorb new things.
Second, the other reason is that great success requires taking great risks. In addition, we are living in such a competitive society. Everyone is trying to do their best on their professional skills and adopt this society. If you want to gain very high profits in investments, you should use great and very high amounts of money in very risky financial decisions to deal in which you may lose much amount money. If you want to achieve a remarkable success in your life, you need risk studying very hard. For example, I read a book named “ Muhammad Ali ” from my professor’s recommendation. He is one of the greatest boxers in the world. As we known, when he had a competition with his opponent, he bites someone’s ear many years ago. That was really risked for his career. He apologized very sincere. However, he is a hero in my eyes, and