Some people believe that the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends. Other people believe that the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. Compare the advantages of these two different ways of learning about life. Which do you think is preferable? Use specific examples to support your preference. |
Many people believe that one’s life is connected to their family and friends. As such, I can suppose the best way of learning about life is by listening to the advice of family and friends. Yet, in my opinion, the best way of learning about life is through personal experience. This is because our experience can be more exact than others advice and we can make our wishful life by ourselves. There are several reasons for supporting my opinion. First, I believe that people learn their life by abundant experience, and they want to be respected their opinion. This is because most people consider their opinion or experience as the worthiest. For example, when I was a senior in high school, I spent almost my time in art-academy preparing for the entrance examination. However, my mother and my father’s elder brother object me to go to art school. They wanted me to enroll a business school and suggest another way which is method of going to the business school, but we couldn’t make a compromise because I already had been prepared to go art school for three years. If I changed the path in my life, I couldn’t go to any school because the process of admission was different between art school and business school. They didn’t know about process of admission. This is because I thought my opinion is more exact than their opinion. On the other hands, learning life through listening to the advice of family and friends make one’s faculty to be weak but it can helped us instantly. If ones who want to avoid a problem without specific experience, the ones can’t improve their mentality. For instance, in my case, when I worked in marketing; it is my first job. I faced a serious problem with my customer. I asked to my company partner who is my friend to avoid this problem and then my customer accepted my partner’s option instead of my suggestion. After that, I met same kind of problems, but I couldn’t come up with solution because I didn’t know how to solve such these problems. I just worked in accordance with my partner’s indication. This fact shows that the advice of family and friends can’t replace one’s experience, and it is more advantageous than it. To conclude, listening to the advice of family and friends gave us diverse advantage. However it is nothing but emergent solution. For this reason, it is clear that personal experience is more advantageous. |