Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own

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[Understand, but this sentence needs re-phrasing] Life is not a fairytale, there’s no super medicine which can make you more intelligent and knowledgeable in a sudden. The same idea is shown in the Gattaca. If Vincent didn’t work as hard, if he didn’t keep doing exercises regularly, his true identity would be revealed easily through tests in Gattaca. Vincent didn’t make ‘one single error in a million keystrokes’. His carefulness and academic knowledge about the space has given him the same expected potential compared to ‘valids’. Vincent was considered as unworthy by the society at first, without dedication, he wouldn’t be much different from other in-valids. On Vincent’s path to success, dedication definitely played a remarkable role in it.

A person’s success or failure depends on his own determination. There’s no doubt that opinions from people around you affects you a lot. If everybody says ‘you can’t achieve that’ or ‘it’s impossible for you to do it’, your conviction will ...

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