Compared to the past in agricultural society, it is obvious that modern people have become much busier as they have to do and take care of more things. Thus, people in these days tend to do well on fewer things. Students have hard time getting good gades on every subject they take, and many people choose to focuse on and develop few fields in order to succeed.
To begin with, in schools, there are tremendous number of subjects and classes that students have to study every day. Of course, they are able to choose some of them that they are interested in. However, even though they select few of them, they still have a great amount of work to do. Since they have too much work to do, it is impossible for them to invest time evenly on every class, and thus they are likely to concentrate on just few subjects. According to a study conducted by the Ministry of the Education in Korea, the more subjects the students take, the lower GPA they receive. Based on the study, as the students have a lot of pressure on their hectic academic schedules, they are likely to be overwhelmed by heavy work load. Thus, they tend to give up studying some subjects that they felt difficult, and this leads them to lower their grades. As you seen above, since the students cannot spend equal amount of time on every subject, they are good at only few of them.
In addition, modern people are not actually forced to be good at few thing, but they choose to concentrate on few things in order to be specialized in them. To be successful in this modern society, specialized in a specific field is very important and essential. In other words, modern society wants experts with advanced skills and abilities in the certain field rather than people with a variety of shallow knowledge in diverse fields. This is largely because working efficiency of the specialists is much higher in the company, specialized in the specific area, and those workers will eventually increase the company's profits. For example, among the top 100 successful CEO around the world, 91 of them have been focused on only one or two fields, ever since they started their bussiness career. The main reasons for their success are that through long working experience in the specific field, they were able to have related experiences, skills, and knowledge to their specialized field, were able to widen their social and business network who have helped them to be who they are now in many ways. They would not be able to move up the ladder in their field, if they would not concentrate on certain field.
To sum up, in modern society, it is true that people are good at only few things. This is becasue students are forced to do many work in school, they are lack of time to spend enough time on every subject. Also, people voluntarily choose to focuse on few work in oder to be specialized in them for their success.
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