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03/07/07: Successful people take new things and take risks rather than the thing that they've done well

Recently, there is an increasingly notable controversy concerning whether successful people take new things and take risks rather than that they have done well.  Arguing for successful people take new things and take risks are those people who consider that successful people do not satisfy with the current achievements and desire for something new and risky.  As far as I am concerned, however, most of successful people stay in the fields where they good at and constantly improve their skills and knowledge concerning that field.

To begin with, it is undeniable that some successful people to some extent refer to other areas, especially some new things, in addition to the thing that they have done well.  For example, Anold Schwarzengger, a famous American actor, a big movie star, decided to withdraw from the big screen and devoted himself to politics, a whole new thing and probably fairly risky for him.

Nevertheless, most of successful people do not change their major, but rather to put an increasing amount of time and energy on their current career.  One compelling reason supporting my point is that successful people are likely to consider things with intelligence, they are rational and deliberate, and never easily risk their achievements and successes.  For instance, Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, he made great successes in software industry and contributed a lot to the development of the Internet.  However, Bill never took risks to develop in other areas, such as finance and real estate, which may bring him a huge amount of money because Bill knows that he is not good at those things, and he may lose what he already have if he invest his mony in real estate or stocks.

An additional reason is the strong interesting in the original area.  Back to the example of Bill, the reason that he never engaged in new things and took risks to other areas may not limit in his ability, but rather because he is only interested in development software.  Bill started to design software when he was still a college students and the original motivation to start Microsoft Company is that he wants every family can own their personal computer.  This strong interesting never changed during his whole career, so he definitely will not take new things in other areas.

In conclusion, although the considerable benefits that attracts successful people to engage in other things, they cannot compete with the willing to stay in their familiar area , when both stability and interesting are taken into account.  From my point of view, successful people are more likely to do the thing that they have done well rather than take risks to do new things.

[ 本帖最后由 candyam 于 2008-9-26 14:06 编辑 ]

jackallen0714UID: 2510951

行文流畅！只有学习的份了……

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