Question 58 Some people like to do only what they already do well. Other people prefer to try new things and take risks.

Question 58

Some people like to do only what they already do well. Other people prefer to try new things and take risks. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.


Answer

To try new things and take risks is valuable because people should not forget to challenge in their life. However, I like to do only what I can do well. Rather, I want to increase my skills more. It is also profitable in our life. I will write some of the reasons as following.

First, people have limited time in their life. Our life looks long, but is short practically. We can accomplish only one thing. Rather, it is enough if we can do that. A person who succeeds in a field is laudable. We should remember it is hard to complete a field. We do not have so much time to do. I want to dedicate to complete a field in my whole life.

Second, the ability to learn new things is lower when people get older. As you know, it is easy to learn new things for youngsters. They can absorb new knowledge and skills quickly. The ability is remarkable for adults. Yet I am not so young to obtain new things. I can not skill up what I want to do if I perform many things. When the level is higher, it is more difficult to be more sophisticated. We are required to be more concentrated to the field.

Thirdly, it is hard to skill up in only one field. Every field has its own history, and many people struggled in the history. One person can not complete everything in the history. For example, I like to play chess. I do not want to play other games. If I were a specialist of chess, I would not care to play other games. However, it is hard to be a specialist. This is the reason I want to play it rather than other games.

To sum up, I prefer to do what I can already do well. I want to use my limited time to increase to skill up. The ability of new things is not so high in my age, and to skill up in one field is difficult. To be a specialist is attractive for me.