Prompt: Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
What determines success in life is not intelligence or talent, but character: those qualities gained both from living in an honorable and straightforward manner and from learning to deal with disappointment and hardship. Without character, an individual has no hope of true success. Even when competing against opponents of considerable intelligence or strength, those individuals who possess strong character will ultimately win.
Does a person’s character determine that person’s success in life? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.
As mentioned in the prompt that
without character we all will just be like a lost person who doesn’t even know
why we were born, why are we even doing what we are doing right now. So the answer is “yes” a person’s
character determine that person’s success in life. [1]
Character
is what makes us human, without character we all are simply just like robots if
a robot isn’t ordered anything it will just ended up doing nothing. [2] For most people their success in life
is to be rich a millionaire, why? Because moneys can buy you and people you
love a comfort, can help you get what you want anything. For me I feel like our
world now a days is living under control of the moneys ,if you have money you
can do anything ,and this fact doesn’t
need to be teach or tell you can see it every day in the world , social medias
or even on the street as what Jean-Paul Sartre said “When rich people fight
wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die” there are so many
places for riches and so little for poor ,and I think that’s why most people’s
accomplishment in life is to become rich. For me the definition of success is
to be Happy and if possible I want to do something that makes people in the
next generation remember me in a good way. And to be happy means to be living
with the people I love that also love me back, doing a job that doesn’t make me
feel like I’m working , good place to live good foods to eat and good friends .
Why do each
people have different character? This question can relate to one of the biggest
psychology issue, Nature Vs Nurture: Do genes or environment matter more? In my
opinion I’d say both of them matter equally, they are what make us who we are
today. Example like if I was born really poor on the street, being successful
for me would means to become rich living in a comfortable place have no more hardship
in life, but that does not apply to every poor people, some of them they define
their success as to just live with people they love such as their parents, money
is not a factor to live a life for them no matter how much difficulty they will
have to face just be together with who they love is enough. Why is it like that?
Because poor people wants to be rich; influenced by nurture or environment, but
some just want to stay with people they love and treat them best ; having gratitude
is caused by Nature or genes from parent to child. [3]
Everybody in
the world all they want is to be happy; each person just has different ways to
do it to succeed their happiness. Or in
another words everyone has the same meaning of success which is to be happy.
But “There is no key to happiness. The door is always open, it’s our choice to
enter it or not”.
