Some people say that success is 10% talent and 90% hard work. Is hard work the key to success or is talent also important?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.
There has been much debate on the contributing factors to success. Some suppose that gifted people are more likely to succeed than others. Although natural capacity such as intelligence and talents play a key role, I suppose that hard work is of equal significance in helping individuals achieve their goals.
On the one hand, genius is regarded as a decisive factor in establishing one’s reputation. Take artists such as singers and actors as a good example. If they are not excellent at singing and acting, it is highly likely that they cannot gain remarkable achievements despite the fact that they train themselves very hard. Similarly, a mathematician will probably not be able to solve a complicated math exercise unless he is skillful at calculating. Therefore, talent is vital to achieving success.
On the other hand, I strongly believe that talent alone cannot help individuals to promote in their career path and education. That is to say, it is their determination and consistency that determine if they are successful. In fact, many jobs involve more hands-on experience than talents, and in order to successfully complete the assigned tasks, workers are expected to devote not only their time but also their labor. For example, unless students spend time revising the lessons and doing research, they will not get good academic results. The underlying reason for this is in spite of their intelligence, they will not be able to keep in mind the knowledge they are taught only when they make a great effort to put it into practice. Only by doing this can adolescents make progress in the acquisition of knowledge.
To conclude, although I understand how important talent is in one’s career, I still argue that hard work should not be underestimated because it plays a crucial role in helping people succeed.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 778, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'progress'.
Suggestion: progress
...Only by doing this can adolescents make a progress in the acquisition of knowledge. To ...
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Line 7, column 194, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...crucial role in helping people success.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, similarly, so, still, therefore, for example, i suppose, in fact, such as, in spite of, on the other hand, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08609271523 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8642135282 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592715231788 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6870134584 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.4 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188146729695 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594261197071 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631395142574 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131901066305 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615538564212 0.056905535591 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 778, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'progress'.
Suggestion: progress
...Only by doing this can adolescents make a progress in the acquisition of knowledge. To ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 194, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...crucial role in helping people success.
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, similarly, so, still, therefore, for example, i suppose, in fact, such as, in spite of, on the other hand, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 24.0651302605 141% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 302.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08609271523 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8642135282 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592715231788 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6870134584 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.4 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 7.06120827912 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188146729695 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594261197071 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0631395142574 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131901066305 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615538564212 0.056905535591 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 13.0946893788 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.