I disagree with the statement that people’s success is because of hard work. Most of people believe that success results in hard work, but I don’t. Hard work does not guarantee success, because there are cases of people working hard and finally failing and there are also cases of people succeeding through a coincidental event.
First of all, hard work does not guarantee success. For example, when I worked in an electronics company, I was a project team leader and we had to find the solution for a defect in our product. We worked really hard including weekends and after for 18 hours a day for two months. We eventually found the solution, but it took too much time. We didn’t keep the promise with the Buyers. Although we worked extremely hard, the project failed.
Second, there are many cases of people succeeding through a coincidental event.
For example in sports, the Korean football team faced the Italian football team in round of 16 in the 2002 world cup. The Korean football team was losing with two minutes remaining. Then they tied the game. The game went into extra time and they finally got a golden goal. The goal was so lucky because on a free kick, An Jung Whan, the Korean football player, jumped and tried to head the ball. He missed it but luckily it hit his shoulder and went into the net. Italy thought it was a done deal but Korea came back and won.
Third, one of the discoveries in the field of science is serendipity. Currently, the most important theory is Quantum theory. It created our current electronic age/era and we use the theory everyday such as in semiconductor in a cell-phone and computer. But this theory was not accepted in the early 1900s by scientist like Einstein. He tried to explain this theory that God does not play dice. The discovery of this theory, however, was ironically proved through other experiments, called Photoelectric effect by Einstein. In addition, other example is here.
High-temperature superconductivity was discovered serendipitously by physicists Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller, ironically when they were searching for a material that would be a perfect electrical insulator (nonconducting). They won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery. Although these discoveries were a coincidence, it largely affected our life.
To summarize, there is a saying that Man proposes, God disposes.
Its small meaning may be that people do hard work for their success, but hard working does not guarantee success. In order word, when people succeed, it may be because of hard work, or luck. So, I disagree with the statement for people to succeed because of their hard working. |