Successful people take new things and take risks rather than the thing that they've done well
To address the question of whether successful people are more likely to take risks and new things than to do things which they have done well, we should first define the group of people--so-called successful people. In most cases, a man has been labelled as "successful man" because of their certain achievement in some field. In my view, the real successful man not only has great achievements but also has a great influence which leads to the advancement of his field. Therefore, the criteria of success require a man to possess the courage to take risks that may bring changes to others.
Why a man is viewed as successful person is definitely because he has done something that seems impossible to others. We gave warm applause to Steve Jobs not only because he has accumulated a big amount of personal wealth but also because he has made a business fairy tale come true, and it is the inspiration power of the fairy tale that has revolutionised the market trend and changed almost everyone's way of entertainment. No one would expect that Jobs could go this far when he was fired by the company he founded years ago. Instead of doing a traditional compyter manufacturer, after leaving Apple Jobs bought Pixer to focus his attention on the entertainment business. He is the man with vision, and thanks to the experience in entertainment business his return to Apple has brought a great success to the company. It is because of Jobs's innovative idea and courage to change that Apple finds its new growing point and that we, common people, can experience the extraordinary excitement when we have ipod and iphone. It is true that to take new things brings risks with it and that to maintain the well-being of present state seems relatively safe. Those emperors of Qing dynasty in China may have the same thought that to have an affluent empire requires them to make little change and avoid taking risks, so they all together endorse the Closed-door policy. Then, We know the following story of the falling great empire. How can we call those rulers successful men? They ignored a truth that this is a everyday-changing world, and the man who choose to keep the pace with the change succeeds, even sometimes it takes certain risks. In a word, as Darwin says in Origin Species, the fittest survives the selectiion of nature. We can call successful man great “fitter”. |