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issue141 [加州阳光]第三次作业请拍砖
141. "Most people recognize the benefits of individuality, but the fact is that personal economic success requires conformity."
虽然大多数人都承认个性的益处,但是事实上个人的经济成功需要的是一致。 (64)
We all share the belief that individuality and conformity are two important ingredients in pursing personal economic achievement. Yet it is still a controversial issue of which is main factor. The speaker asserts that personal economic success requires conformity although most people recognize the benefits of individuality. I basically agree with the speaker' point of view.
To begin with, economic success means one gains profits from other people or the society, thus only conform to the majority's will and needs can he or she succeed in economic. Take "Google" for example, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who have founded Google, make Google become the overlord of network search and advertisement that possesses over billions market value. Considering what the customs really want is their secret of success. In other words, they try to conform to their customs' will and requirements. Although Sergey Brin and Larry Page have many individual ideas, when a new product or service is introduced, they will inquiry large numbers of customs' suggestion and attempt to conform to the majority. Supposed that they only run the company with their individuality, perhaps many innovative products are created, yet it is hard to say these products can make profits. Therefore, without regard to conformity, it equals to lose the customs.
Additionally, in the world characterized as globalization and "earth village", there are more and more uniform standards in many fields, including business and even technology and science. It is very hard to imagine that one can get the personal economic success if he or she does not conform to the common "game rules" such as international standards and regulations. For instance, in the software field, if the software engineer emphasizes his own individuality in designing some software, it may not run in the general computer operating system like Windows of Microsoft Corp. or Red Hat Linux, there would be few or even no customers to buy his soft wares, which can merely run on the platform of the engineer's organization. Consequently, the personal economic success of the engineer would be merely an illusion.
Despit conformity is crucial, individuality is indispensable for the personal economic success. Sometime (sometimes) we cannot drift with the tide. Warren Buffett, American financier, chairman of Berkshine Hathaway-an investment company with corporate holdings in excess of $ billion, is always against the majority's thoughts. In 1997, the price of silver in the world had fell (fallen) sharply which became the lowest price in the recent forty years. There was no sign to show that the price would enhance and at the same time most people thought that it was ridiculous to buy volumes of silver. However, Buffett did not conform to the majority's opinions and bought a number of (a large amount of, a number of 修饰复数名词) silver. In a few years, he made the (a) great profits. This example illustrates that we also need individuality in pursuing personal economic success.
In sum, individuality cannot be ignored because the majority is not always right; we need innovation and creation originated from the individuality. Nevertheless, we cannot overestimate the individuality, as a member of the society, conformity is more important to succeed in personal economy.
看了你的这片issue发现了自己作文一个很大的缺点,写的很不错,加油:victory: |
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