tokens: Successful people do something new or take risks There is a hotly debated issue over whether successful people usually take risk or try new things, and the topic can be approached from several different angles due to its complexity . Some people tend to believe that to be successful, they should do something they are unfamiliar with, while others seem to stand on the opposite place . After deeply pondering over this issue, I develop my own perspective as well . I favor the latter; that is, successful people still do things they already know . The first and foremost reason lies in an inevitable fact that to be successful, we all try to reduce the risk we might encounter . The lower the factors making us fail we have, the higher probability to success we own . Consider a circumstance in which one person is rich because he knows a lot of knowledge of investment . He can focus on certain companies which he thinks is worth it to invest, and then just waits for the not so high but constant income . He does not have to invest some dangerous companies to get higher profit which might lead him to bankrupt in a short time . Therefore, we can commence to agree that successful people do not have to try new things or take risks . Moreover, another equally crucial aspect is that it depends on the capability of one to decide whether he can succeed or not . At least, a successful person should be able to dismantle the hurdles prohibiting him to success . For instance, the sports stars do not have to take some drugs to win a game or show their extraordinary skills . The same reason why they succeed is that they all have the predominated abilities in sports realm . In contrast, those athletes try to have distinctive performance by taking risks of taking drugs are failed to succeed . Hence, from this case, we are capable of stating that it is not necessary for successful people to take risks . Admittedly, on the other hands, there might be some dissidents proclaiming that doing something new is necessary for people to success because they can become different from others, which is also a widely accepted idea for success . However, according to my limited understanding, I just doubt the credibility of that saying owing to its imprudence . Try something new can indeed make people become special, while it does not mean successful . Based on the reasons demonstrated above, I believe that doing what we already known can still leads us to succeed because the advantages of this are relatively greater than that of the opposite . In other words, reducing risks and enhancing individual's capability is the most important path to success . It is not to say, of course, that other points of view are completely without merit . Still, I am firmly convinced that the reasons I have proposed in favor of my own sentiment are much more tenable and cogent .