TOEFL® essay: People should never give up when they set their mind to do something

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The expression "Never, never give up" means to keep trying and never stop working for your goals. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Use specific reasons and exampples to support your answer.

In the contemporary world, things can change quite abruptly, and it is nonsensical to never make any modifications to plans simply because it is something that one had put his or her mind into. Never giving up after setting minds to accomplish a certain goal does have its advantages by motivating people to achieve something valuable, but it is illogical to apply it to real-life situations.

The first benefit from doing so is prevention from continuing something that is inefficient. In many cases, plans in their first stages are not completely effective. Even though they may be carefully organized and put a lot of consideration in it, they are most likely to have at least some flaws in them unless they are modified to adapt to certain situations. If one decides to carry on with the original plans that may have some minor disadvantages, he or she will notice that the minor disadvantages will cause him or her great drawbacks as the plan continues to be applied to real situations. However, by making modifications in order to adapt to changes in real life, one would be able to efficiently succeed with the plans, without having to make drastic changes and give up.

Moreover, there are many more cases where the primary arrangements are, not only slightly out of direction, but utterly wrong. This usually happens under a substantial lack of consideration, which is common to the modern society since they do not have sufficient time to put careful thought into matters when making decisions and layouts. The solution to this problem is to just completely give up; nevertheless, many dread to take this drastic step because they are afraid of losing all the work they had put in previously. This is extremely cowardly, for the reason that putting surplus effort into a worthless goal only wastes valuable time and effort that leads to nowhere.

The most valuable lesson to any entrepreneurs and businesspersons is to adjust their primary ambitions quickly and efficiently in order to profit the most according to the varieties of situations they are in. A majority of them usually put a sufficient amount of anticipations when setting their goals, as businesspersons, but there could be dramatic changes to the circumstances that could have a critical effect on their original intentions. Nowadays, the world is suffering from a financial crisis, in which resulted a sharp decrease in economic values, especially in the real estate market. Not only a decade ago, the real estate business was considered to be safe and fairly stable for local investors. However, since the values of homes and estates are dwindling incredibly day by day, the investors fear that it would be a deadly risk to invest in those properties. Although their primary ambition may have been purchasing and profiting from estates, the current circumstances are disabling to do so. In this case, it is a thoughtful move to put a temporary halt to the initial aspiration, because continuing with it would just cause these investors great misfortune.

Conclusively, the concept of pursing with the original plan until the end is illogical and ridiculous. Although it may generate encouragement and motivation to achieve such goals, it is not guaranteed to be applied to every situation in the modern society, because changes take place nearly every second, and which every modification, the original plan would just develop serious flaw, and, ultimately trigger severe catastrophes.