42. One skill needed to be successful in the world today
What is a very important skill a person should learn in order to be successful in the world today? Choose
one skill and use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
参见：[15]。也可以用[27]作为答案。
『范文』
People succeed not merely because they have one or more certain skills. However, if I have to choose one
skill which is supposed to be useful to success, I think it should be the ability to convince or persuade others.
By convincing or persuading we get what we want from others. When we were children, we always managed
to persuade our parents to buy us candies; when we were in the high school, we had to persuade our classmates to
play with us; when we applied for a job after graduation, we had better be able to successfully convince the
employer that we are qualified employees. Besides, some day, we will all have to convince a person whom we love
that we are in deed outstanding husbands or excellent wives.
By convincing or persuading we become more and more sturdy and powerful. Nobody is capable of doing
every thing perfect. By persuading others to cooperate with us, we can achieve much more than we could only by
ourselves. Mr. Yu Minhong, CEO of Beijing New Oriental Education & Technology Group, had successfully
convinced his alumni including Mr. Wang Qiang and Mr. Xu Xiaoping to strive after an ideal—to build a most
influential private university in China, and today, they have been so close. Mr. Yu, while answering a journalist, said
that he once persuaded Chinese students to go abroad, his current work is to convince those students to return to their
homeland with their enhanced intelligences.
Ironically, it is ourselves who need us to persuade and convince most. We by nature are weak, yet have to be
stronger to face up to tough surroundings. All too often we need encouraging. Amazingly enough, it is ourselves
who can in deed encourage. When we are in trouble, we need convince ourselves not to give up, when we are in
plain sailing, we need persuade ourselves no to be negligent. By convincing ourselves, we become more and more
independent, and more and more robust, both of which are characteristics essential to success.
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