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As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether one should be similar or different in or
As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether one should be similar or different in or
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2019-11-02
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As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether one should be similar or different in order to gain success. To what degree do you agree that one can truly have unique individuality? How much can individuality, or similarity, contribute to success?
Following are two excerpts on this topic. Read these excerpts carefully and write a response of no less than 300 words, in which you should:
1. summarize the opinions from both sides;
2. give your comment.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Excerpt 1
Born to Win
Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward
Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials—capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being—a productive person, a winner.
The word "winner" and "loser" have many meanings. When we refer to a persona as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.
Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinion and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.
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Excerpt 2
People don’t like to be told they are similar to everyone else. But that’s ridiculous, really. Because feeling special and different is a luxury only for those who are very mainstream. I can tell you, as a person who does not fit in that well, I work very hard to fit in. You think the eccentrics are trying to be eccentric, but they are not. It’s not fun to be eccentric if you really are. It’s only fun to be eccentric if you aren’t.
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By examining how I fit into the generations, I can see the larger context of myself and my community. And the larger a context you can see yourself in, the more varied your self-knowledge will be. When it comes to making choices in your life, you will make better choices with better self-knowledge—understanding how you are the same as other people. If you know how you are the same, you can leverage the knowledge and research what has come before you.
You are probably an average juggler. You are probably part of your generation. You probably hate being told you are regular and typical. But let me tell you something. The best way to solve your career problems is to recognize that you are not the first to have them.
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答案
These two excerpts outline a strong contrast in understanding the meaning of success as well as the approach to it. According to James and Jongeward, everyone is new, capable to win, and endowed with unique abilities to think. Winners should be brave enough to think by themselves and value themselves while admiring others. The anonymous writer in the second excerpt, who may be unique and successful, holds a very different view. He/she holds that those who are different from others, usually find it hard and work very hard to be similar to others. If people want to achieve success, they have to find their common features with others. Although both sides seem to hold water, I personally think the first opinion more valuable. On the one hand, James and Jongeward are more positive than the second writer. They acknowledge people’s individual values, and highlight the importance of personal thought to "winners". Besides, the idea in the first excerpt is about ordinary people, and therefore approachable to most people. In contrast, the ideas in the second excerpt can be applied only to "those who do not fit in." It may be equally hard for them to be similar, just like ordinary people who try to be different, but for ordinary readers, this may sound a little far-fetched. What’s more, the second writer suggests that one must be similar in order to be professionally successful, but numerous examples, such as Steve Jobs and Ma Yun, have shown that you need to be different in order to be successful in career. From their examples, I would suggest that it is the unique features that make people great and successful, and those common features are needed only to build favorable relation with others in teambuilding. Sharing some common features is needed, but it is not the real reason for success. Although the contrast may be weakened for different definitions for success, these two excerpts do help us to better understand our value, and help us to work toward success.
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