In your opinion, what is the most important characteristic (for example, honesty, intelligence, sense of humor) that a person can have to be successful in life? Use specific reasons and examples from your experience to explain your answer. When you write

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In your opinion, what is the most important characteristic (for example, honesty, intelligence, sense of humor) that a person can have to be successful in life? Use specific reasons and examples from your experience to explain your answer. When you write your answer, you are not limited to the examples listed in the question.

One of the most challenging point all parents face to is the way they should train their children and teach them to be honest, intelligent or have a sense of humor to succeed. The type of characteristic of children can totally change their lives and lead to their success or even failure in the future. Some people think we must teach our children to be honest while others think intelligence is the key to success, and another group of people may consider a sense of humor as the most important characteristic. In my view, intelligence is the most important characteristic and I would like to elaborate on my opinion with following reasons.

First, Life is too short, and we have to learn fast which is possible just by being intelligent. Intelligence is not just about the IQ, it is more about knowing what to learn and how to learn fast and efficiently. Nowadays everything is changing so fast and if we want to go by this flow, we should have this ability to recognize all things we need to know, and also learn from our problems and mistakes at the moment they happen. Besides that, if we want to compete with our rivals, we should know much more than them and this is feasible if we have intelligence. My own experience is a compelling example of this point. Last month, I applied for a job position which was not in the field of my academic education, but because I wanted that job so bad, I tried my best, and learned all required knowledge in a couple of months. However, I had many highly educated rivals, but because I used my intelligence in the best way, I could get the job, and that is why believe intelligence is essential for success.

Second, intelligence helps us to predict the future which is essential to be successful in life. By using our intelligence we can think wiser and make better decisions which lead to our success. If we always be aware of all things happening around us, analyze them and have this ability to foreseen probable things happening in the future, we can be really successful in our life. For instance, my father is a person who everyone counts him as an intelligent person. Three years ago, he participated in an auction, and bought a land which no one was really interested in it, but my father was sure that in just some years the value of the land will increase. He paid 10,000,000 Rial (The currency in Iran) for the land, and now the net value of it is almost 100,000,000 Rial. All the people who knew my father were amazed by his wonderful prediction and after that tried to take some advices from him before buying or selling anything.
To sum up, we cannot say that if a person has one special characteristic, will be successful for sure, and the reality is that if someone wants to succeed, should have a combination of some characteristics which can help him to make better decisions and avoid probable risks. But based on presented justifications, if you ask me what the most important characteristic for success is, I would say that is intelligence.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 48, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to fast'
Suggestion: to fast
...Life is too short, and we have to learn fast which is possible just by being intelli...
^^^^
Line 3, column 193, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to fast'
Suggestion: to fast
... knowing what to learn and how to learn fast and efficiently. Nowadays everything is...
^^^^
Line 5, column 202, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[4]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put after the verb 'be'.
Suggestion: be always
...isions which lead to our success. If we always be aware of all things happening around us...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, may, really, second, so, while, for instance, in my view, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 13.8261648746 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 43.0788530466 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2476.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 539.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59369202226 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78213222911 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 212.727598566 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47866419295 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 774.9 618.680645161 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 12.0 1.86738351254 643% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 53.1321701044 48.9658058833 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.8 100.406767564 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.95 20.6045352989 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188965144503 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659307550425 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455497292365 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134282993185 0.150856017488 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0475365846284 0.0645574589148 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 58.1214874552 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.64 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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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