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论处事态度：乐观或悲观?
海外大学教师谢振礼原创范文
Essay Topic
>To be successful in life, people take different attitudes when dealing
with with difficulties and opportunities. Some people tend to be more optimistic
while others tend to be more pessimistic. What do you think is the better
attitude?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your
own knowledge or experience.
Example Writing
By Jeenn Lee Hsieh
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental
attitude because nothing on earth can help those with a negative mental
attitude. In general, successful persons are opportunity-minded rather than
difficulty-minded. That is to say, the pessimist sees difficulty in every
opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Any fact facing us is often not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that can determine our success or failure. The pessimist would visualize
penalties of failure whereas the optimist would visualize the rewards of
success. It might be true sometimes that people tried hard half-way and failed
miserably, from which a lesson is learned that they should not have tried at all
in the first place. Thus, after one failure, they are disappointed and
discouraged, refusing to believe that the road to success is under construction.
Since pessimists are afraid to fail, they are not likely to experience the joys
of success. More often than not, this wrong mental attitude, or rather the fear
of striking out, may hold them back.
It is certainly not the optimist's attitude toward success--always being
ready as an opportunity comes. People with the right mental attitude are never
scared by going too far, and they are convinced that success lies just beyond.
True enough, it is not that optimists become winners without encountering real
problems, but that they are willing to do do what losers are not willing to do.
In other words, optimists choose to step forward, as if it were impossible to
fail; but pessimists are always in the same place. Therefore, both attitudes
tell a success and a failure apart. In all likelihood, success is like the child
of optimism.
It pays to assume that opportunity may be in the middle of difficulty, or
at least this is what the optimist is inclined to believe. Indeed, success of
life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it
comes. After all, optimists are right in believing what they can do and succeed;
so are pessimists who think they would fail anyway. |
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:23:24