As we often find in our discussion, it is useful to think about a topic before we read a text.
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Skillful's question to respond to
What do you think? What makes a person successful? Write a definition of success.
Think about: achievement, fame, career, power, money, and relationships .
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- Bixby, J. & Scanlon, J. (2013). Skillful reading & writing: Student's book 3. Oxford: Macmillan Education
For me, what is the factor that is success is my career and relationship. The career I mean isn't the one that gives you a lot of money, but it is the one that you dream to be. Like me, I dream to be a pilot since I was very young around grade 1-2. I like to see the plane in the sky every time it pass above my house and stay for it until it's gone. Pilot is the another career that makes a lot of money, but as I says, I didn't take the money to be my factor; it's just my real dream to control a plane.
ReplyDeleteAnother is relationship. I hope to be with my family that makes the wonderful life. Of course, my mom and dad are the part of my future family, too. For my partner, I didn't think about that; I hope to finish my degree first and get my career and that is another thing I'm supposed to look at.
It is a question that I always ask myself. For me There are many factors that make a person successful. What I concern most is working, I think it is the most important thing do in your life. Because it represents how you deal with your tasks, how you manage your works in your field. it also shows a person's abilities to work with other people. And only work can bring many other things such as fame, power, money and sometimes relationships.
ReplyDeleteI think it's difficult question (for 6 minutes). Every person have decides what success means for him. It can be achievement, fame, career, power, money or relationships. Why not? But I think that person is successful when he/she understand his/her life. I mean when the person know exactly that he want, when he enjoys life, when he does it every moment. That's mean success for me. If money make you happy, why nor? If you children make you successful, why not? If you ideas make your life perfect for you, why not?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, success means that you can achieve your goals. Thing that will make a person successful is working hard. I think that every goal in our life is not an easy thing that you can achieve without doing anything because success will not come to you, but you have to go to get them. Working hard is the best way to get to your destination because on your way to your success, you have to face with many challenges. If you not work hard, you will not be able to pass these challenge and reach your goal.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, successful means someone who is satisfied with something he did. For example, a man climb up the top of Mountain Everest can also defines as being successful. I think it is determination that makes people gets successful because if you always give up something in the half way you'll totally failed.
ReplyDeleteSuccess is complicate. People have difference idea of success, but achievement, fame, career, power, money relationships are common things to most people to measure how successful someone can be. Because everyone can see these things. Unlike happiness which other people can't see. Success in my idea, is how individual are happy with their life and how everyone around (family) are happy with that individual.
ReplyDeleteYou idea is very interesting. I think wht you said is right and that can cause people have an unhappy life whe accually they can. Many people work too hard to gain a lot of money because they think that will live with hapiness. And many times, it turns out they don't have time to enjoy with people they care or do what they really want which means they don't really have a happy life.
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ReplyDeletegiven examples are related. Some people might be think money is a goal but for me I think happiness is a life achievement because when you do something by heart, you put yourself in it combine with happiness things seem likely to got done easier and better. When you happy you also make your family happy too. Happy seem likely to be unform you can not touch but people who can do it can feel it, little happiness brings success to your life and everything else will follow.
Your idea is similar to mine. I think if I can do what I like to do: it is my career, I can achieve it easily than doing another that I don't like to. For example, if I try to be a doctor but actually I don't choose myself, I would get in trouble when I'm a doctor and maybe I would fail just in the beginning and couldn't be a doctor.
DeleteIn my comment, I don't mention that happiness is my factor of success. I say to get my beloved career and to carry good relationship are. However, the highest goal that is lead from those is happiness, as you say. What I say lead me to my true happiness.
I think the career makes a person successful. When a person love their job, they will have passion to keep doing on it. The career they like would made them be successful in their area. A ability of one person also make a person successful. When a person have more experience and ability in his area, it must be the most powerful ways to get achievement.
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