Luck plays more of a role in determining success than work ethic does.

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Luck plays more of a role in determining success than work ethic does.

Although a reasonable person might argue that work ethics is the primary factor in deciding the success, I believe that a combination of hard work and luck is necessary. It is wise to consider that the success of a task is dependent not only our work but some other uncontrollable factors which fall under the umbrella of luck, for instance, if you are participating in a car race and all of a sudden a tire bursts then no matter how hard you try the odds are clearly against you and you cannot really win the race.

Let us first consider the example from field of sports, particularly Cricket. Sachin Tendulkar, one the of the most renowned batsmen of Indian Cricket team is know for his hard work and persistence. His cricket career started at a very young age of sixteen, and in one of his interviews he recalls how he used to reach cricket ground before 5:00 AM without fail during those early days. He definitely attributes his success to the amount of work he has put all through his successful career. However, if you listen to his talk after a particular cricket match, he states that we were "lucky" to have a weather and pitch which helped in batting well and scoring runs. He certainly understands that attaining success is definitely a complex combination of various factors, few that we can control by our hard work, while others which we cannot control but we can hope to be lucky.

Form the field of cricket let us turn our attention to the field of science. Let us look at one of the most distinguished scientists of all time, Thomas Elva Edison, and his famous light-bulb experiment. Edison had to persistently experiment for more than a thousand times before finally inventing light bulbs. He had strong work ethics and diligently tried over and never gave up. But he also attributes how lucky he has been to be able in succeeding after doing the same experiment a many times.

Finally, I would like to quote an incident from my personal life. In my high school I was really uninterested towards studying history and social sciences, and so I was really distressed during the exams. I had to read a lot of chapters before the exams and practically could not finish the course well before exams. I took a chance and only studied those topics which I already knew, and risked losing marks if questions appear from other unknown portions of the text. I remember that I was really scared since I did not know about one-third portion of the text. In the examination, I was delighted to see most of the questions were actually regarding the topics I had read well. I certainly was lucky to secure 85% marks by reading only two-thirds of the text, while I recall that my friends who read the whole book could only score close to 80%.

In conclusion, sure hard work is the crucial factor for success but luck is also something which should not be neglected.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 471, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...rom other unknown portions of the text. I remember that I was really scared since...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, really, regarding, so, then, third, well, while, for instance, in conclusion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2378.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 512.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.64453125 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75682846001 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63073394862 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52734375 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2638988812 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.238095238 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.380952381 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134163866678 0.243740707755 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0408306915761 0.0831039109588 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0620643019722 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0888285654329 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0574867096266 0.0667264976115 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 48.8420337079 131% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.93 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 100.480337079 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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