51. Some people believe that success in life comes from taking risks or chances. Others believe that success results from careful planning. In your opinion, what does success come from? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
As far as I'm concerned, a series of factors are necessary for the last success, or we can say, different factors will lead to successes in different levels. Considering my experiences and personal sensations, I will try to demonstrate my viewpoint of this issue with specific supporting information in the following paragraphs.
Some basic aspects of a successful life, like hard working or careful planning are also key factors of success. We can cite total synthesis, one of the main research areas of organic chemistry, as a common example to illustrate the importance of these factors. As you know, although the research of total synthesis is filled with accidents, you can't imagine that scientists could synthesize a complex compound without any careful planed strategy. Some famous scientists, such as R. B. Woodward and E. J. Corey who made a series of breakthrough and won many glories in this area, always used a lot of time to design their strategies. And E. J. Corey is famous for his theory about how to design a synthesis way, which helped him to gain 1990 Nobel Prize. But it should also be pointed out that, any plan or design is based on the knowledge which has been discovered by former researchers, so some brilliant works don't thoroughly rely on planning.
On the other hand, it's impossible to succeed just because of some risks or chances without any concrete preparation before, but based on hard working and careful planning, many top level successes were caused by a few accidents. A typical example is the find of X-ray. The scientist was not eager to find such a kind of radiation at first and merely wanted to try a variety of lights in his experiment. But at last he found this phenomenon which he hadn't imagined before. In fact, for most researches in different areas, accidents or chances play an important role. Many scientists can't plan the final results before abundant experiments. Sometimes their efforts don't have any payback, while sometimes they harvest many satisfactory fruits.
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