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First of all, various experiences could broaden someone’s perspective.
This is largely because people of value has a influence by what they have been done in person according to, point of view in the field of education, Experimental Learning Theory which states people learn easily from their experiences than reading or studying something. As the proverb says seeing is believing, first-hand experience affects what they are thinking and how they are feeling.
From my experience, I used to be judge people by their score in school, when I was in high school, because elitism has spread out through whole country. However, my point of view changed by going on a trip to America from score to talent which others have gotten. Surprisingly, every foreign friend I met in the U.S did not care about how much grade they get in class. Rather they focused what they want to do in the future and which talents they got, so I figured out there are much more important things than studying through the life. While reading from book did not inspire me to convert the way of thinking others, only meeting them in person has an effect on me. In this aspect, doing by oneself is better way to broaden someone’s perspective.
Moreover, first-hand experience might be proper for having a relationship.
An important reason is that people have empathy to someone who has similar experience, so the more experience they got, the more possibility to understand others. In addition, people can apply their ability for empathy into their relationship by sharing their experience and putting themselves in other’s shoes.
For example, the emotion from giving birth cannot be understood easily by reading or listening. Like Korean saying, daughters only can be grown ups, after giving birth and raising their own child, without doing in person, it is difficult to have an empathy of nursing and parenting as a mother.
Lastly, experience by oneself is more memorable and long lasting.
This is due to the fact that a book only describes with words, numbers and pictures, so sometimes it bores us. On the contrary, learning in person allows us to do our own hands. Hence, the memory of special experience stored with our emotion and thought makes us remember it longer.
For instance, I can still illustrate the memory in time when I tried to learn how to ride a bike in the first time of my entire life. In my memory, the weather was shining, and it was afternoon about 2 o’clock in early spring, father offered me that if I learn the way to ride a bike, he would buy a bike as a gift, so I asked my friend to teach me riding, and she accepted in favor. Also, I can recall my feelings that I felt sorry and thank at the same time because I scratched her bike a lot due to practicing and falling down, and thanks to her, I was able to ride a bike before the end of the day. This story makes me believe that experiencing is far longer memory than any other second hand experience such as reading a book.
In conclusion, without any doubt, I definitely agree with the statement that learning in person is more efficient way than reading books. The reason is that first-hand experience could broaden someone’s perspective, be good for relationship, and be more memorable.
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