It is often said that the person who has one strength success in the
society since they could work out even difficult problems. However, as far as I’m
concerned, having many skills would be better for two reasons: to adapt to the
fast-changing modern society, and to have bigger success.
Concentrating on developing only one skill leads
people to deteriorate in modern era. This is because in modern society, a lot
of jobs emerge and disappear; become promising and unpopular every day. Thus,
with employing only one skill, people have possibility to undergo hard time to
keep their standard of living, and even to make their living according to how
the trend of society come to shift. For example, my father was a boxer when he
was young. Of course, he tried to be a good athlete, but he also thought he
could not live as a boxer until 40s, and started to study English and
management. He was named as a manager of many boxers since president
acknowledged his ability to manage and encourage others as well as his English
speaking skills. If he had had not time to study other fields, he would not
have become a manager. For several years, he worked as this job; however, he
realized that boxing would not be so popular in the future, and began to study
accounting. After he quitted his job, he became a wholesale person dealing with
cooking oil. Based on his endurance and ability to persuading others which had
been developed when he was working as a manager, he worked so hard. In the end, he became a man
who sells the most amount of cooking oil in the city where he lives and other
states around it, and he won prizes from the main office several times. Unless
he didn’t study and developed many skills, he could never prepare for the
future and achieve such accomplishments.
Also, the people who have many skills are likely to be more
successful. There is saying “To dig deeper, you have to dig widely”. This means
that if you want to be more professional, you should study other fields as
well. Since there is no job and part which need only one ability or skill;
moreover, sometimes only knowing even related fields as well let us work out
the problems, this proverb shows the importance of learning related fields. In 2002,
according to the survey conducted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of
Korea, 75 percent of so called successful people of each field is likely to have
mastered at least two foreign languages, and to have other degrees not same
with their original majors. In this sense, drilling other skills as well which
would be helpful to your career is strongly recommendable thing.
To sum up, living in fast-changing
society, we need to study diverse fields and cultivate many skills in order to
adapt the altering trend and survive, and from exercising and developing other
skills as well, we can have competitive power.