Diligence is the Mother of Good Luck

This is the topic for the writing task of yesterday's mock exam. The sentence is a quote from Benjamin Franklin. An interesting topic, but not easy to approach. Many students wrote about how diligence leads to success.

Good luck involves chance, chance to get something desirable. If those students had written about how chances come from diligence, they wouldn't have gone off the track.

For example, a person who works until 10 o'clock every night and is accidentally discovered by his boss creates the chance to get a promotion or a raise. We would say he is lucky to be seen. However, if the man went home early and watched TV in the cozy living room every night, the chance for him to be found working hard would be zero. That is, the good luck would never be on his side.

For another example, when Newton was hit on the head by a falling apple from the tree and therefore came up with the theory of gravity, it might be jokingly regarded as good luck. Nonetheless, without his diligent studies on physics before that day, nothing great would have come out of that "accident." That is why many people had been hit by an apple before him but couldn't have figured out anything.

Without question, diligence is the mother of good luck.