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Successful people try new things and take risks rather than only doing what they know how to do well

People like to explore and be innovative in order to build their bank of knowledge rather than sticking to solely what they know how to do well. However, in my own opinion, I would rather do what I know how to do best than taking risk to explore an entirely new thing. I prefer this due to two reasons explained below.
First of all, while it is a good idea to try something new as doing a routine task can be boring and frustration. I believe that sticking to what you are best at, what you have build skills and experience over the years would be a good thing to do in order to continuously increase your productivity and avoid wasting time and resources (human and financial). Doing things that you are novice in may be detrimental to your growth and productivity as many would believe that experience is a good teacher. Take for instance, during my undergraduate days, I intern with a building services company, who have built years of experience in the residential and industrial mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services. This is a company that has rise and fall after experiencing different aspect of the field, every time there are in dilemma, they can easily refer to similar issue in the previous year, thanks to their good record keeping and root cause analysis, which makes the issue seemingly inexistence. Shockingly, this company brought an idea of exploring oil and gas services which is a totally new aspect of the field, experience of which require a lot of time, money and skills to build. This seems like a good idea but considering the factors attached to it, they decided to focus their energy on what they have build experience in over the years. If the company had tried that, they would have given their core aspect of industrial and residential services little attention as they would find it difficult to pull out of the what they have already invested in. This can lead to a total loss of money, time, reputation, and can ultimately make the company go into bankruptcy.
Second of all, taking risk and trying a new thing can damage your reputation and can eventually make you start all over again. I could remember after my compulsory one-year national service, a federal government program aimed at promoting peace in the nation, I have built the skills of using autocad for electrical building services with low and medium voltage electrical services, this is what I used t sustain and meet my daily means before securing a job. One day, I received a call from a client that he needed a design of extra low voltage, which includes CCTV camera and access control, this type of design is far from what I am good at, instead of informing the client of my expertise, I believe in myself that with little trials and trainings, I would be able to come up with a good design within the specified timeframe. I gave it a trial and came up with something relative to my crude experience in this design. Although, I meet the time required by the client and I have added some skills to the skillset, but the design I came up with was below standard and specification. This made the client not responds to my subsequent mail, the effect of this was that, as I didn’t inform the client where my expertise lies, he would never know my strength and believe that I am a substandard designer. If such client has a design relative to my skills, he wouldn’t have taught of me because he would believe that all my skills are not captivating. Aside from damaging my reputation in front of the client, I also lost a potential customer.
In conclusion, from the examples and explanation above, I believe that it is better to continuously do what you are good at rather than taking risks of exploring new field.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 28.0 13.8261648746 203% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 83.0 43.0788530466 193% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 93.0 52.1666666667 178% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.0752688172 186% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3067.0 1977.66487455 155% => OK
No of words: 660.0 407.700716846 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64696969697 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06857624559 4.48103885553 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64489172742 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 212.727598566 144% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463636363636 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 965.7 618.680645161 156% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 25.0 9.59856630824 260% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 31.0 20.1344086022 154% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 78.9652755281 48.9658058833 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.047619048 100.406767564 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.4285714286 20.6045352989 153% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.85714285714 5.45110844103 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249988855798 0.236089414692 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895015325025 0.076458572812 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125185333777 0.0737576698707 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242714263548 0.150856017488 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.171916338008 0.0645574589148 266% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 11.7677419355 138% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 86.8835125448 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.0537634409 143% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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