When people succeed, it is because of hard work.

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I think that the most important thing to succeed is hard working. Only hard working and tenacity can help people to reach to the goals which he or she desire. However hard working is very important but sometimes luck is necessary, luck is not under person’s control you just must be in right place in right time.

Once when I had very important exam before the exam I had studied the whole material, but my classmate had studied just one part of the material and in exam in his test all questions were from the part which he had studied and we both got the same high grade from that exam, however I worked hard and he did not we got the same grades. This means that the luck also has his function.

But sometimes even hard working can not help person to succeed for example last year I participated in math Olympiad, and I won in national Olympiad and I must have participated in international Olympiad, I worked very hard and I wanted a lot to participate in international Olympiad, but I was ill and doctor forbad me to leave from the country, and instead of me another boy went to participate in that international Olympiad.

But you can not always hope in luck, because you can not know what life makes for you. I prefer to work hard and to reach my goals without hoping at luck. Because as I said luck is not under person’s control. There is a very nice saying, it is said that “It is better to be lucky than rich”, But I think that it is better to be motivated and hard working person and in that case you will be lucky because I think that luck is the ability of hard working.

Taking into consideration all these we can conclude with confidence that people succeed because of hard work, but sometimes luck is necessary.

TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two students at the library