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本帖最后由 yjwn1987 于 2009-5-25 16:17 编辑
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TOPIC: ISSUE99 - "In any realm of life-whether academic, social, business, or political-the only way to succeed is to take a practical, rather than an idealistic, point of view. Pragmatic behavior guarantees survival, whereas idealistic views tend to be superceded by simpler, more immediate options."
WORDS: 477 TIME: --:--:-- DATE: 2009-5-23 下午 12:07:14
In the speaker's assertion, I agree with that the practical way can help us survival,but it's not the only way to succeed and the idealism is still important in the modern society.
Admittedly,practical means brief and directly thinking,which can help us take actions rapidly in difficult situations.Just as depictions in the novel Robinson Crusoe,immidiately after the first shocking,Robinson fetches supplies from the ship, builds a place to live,proceeds to plant corns and feed animals for food.Every thing he did on the island is to take a practical,we can see from him that without pragmatism man can not survival in the execrable circumstance.Conditions even alike in the modern society,we live in a world which is getting more and more complex,that's why the OCCAM'S RAZOR,which says entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily,a totally practical way of thinking,becomes one of the most usefull tools of today's life.All the MBA courses,the speeches about work efficiency,the skills of time saving,try to teach us how to hold what we need practically.
However,does survival means succeed as the speaker implied?Absolutely not.Pure pragmatic sometimes leads to a wildering of finally goal and even a forfeit of moral,therefore,the idealistic seems more crucial in the way of searching succeed.Dream is the real resource which makes lives full of significance.Examples come from all the realms of life:in the academic,Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, the owners of Nobel Prize in physical,got the prize for their discover of the radiation phenomena,which people never thought of its exist before;in the social realm,Martin Luther King's famouse dream now has come ture while it sounded just a fantasy in his time;in the business,three young man founded a video sharing website at a great cost while no one believes they can success.Now the web almost changes the people's vision of world.It's You Tube.The examples show that reality is different from the real.Just as a manager only need to be practical while a CEO must be more or less idealistic,the long-term plan,can bring us greater harvest which the short one can't.
At the same time,from my own perspective,to be idealistic doesn't mean there are no practical actions exist in the process.There is a delicate balance between the realism and idealism.Actually,along the road to success,many people are idealists with practical skills.Pierre&Marie Curie,as mentioned above,they paid a indescribable cost for their dream in science,but they also are precise scientists.Steps taken during the reserches must be carefully and scientificly,the couple treat every reflection practically and only in this way can they finally make their dream come true.So sometimes the two may not conflict for the practical is in the formation of ideals.
In sum,the pragmatic and idealistic have their given funcions and relationship.No great success can come into being without any one of both.What's more,opposite to the speaker's assertion,in a society full of eager for quick success and instant benefits, the idealistic reveals more precious as human experience shows. |
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