While some people think that listening to the advice of family and friends is the best way of learning about life, others think that personal experience is the best way. |
We live our lives along with other people; family members, friends, teachers and so on. Therefore by having relationships with those people, we learn from them a lot. In this situation, many people think that the advices are good enough to learn about things and confine their knowledge to those advices not trying to experiece in real. However I oppose to these people for several reasons. First of all, personal experience has stronger impact compared with just listening to some correct words. Also, as we are exposed to real situation, we mature ourselves. I will discuss it in detail.
To begin with, if we experience things directly, we are able to learn about those things more specifically and effectively. When we first listen the lesson about things, we agree with those correct and desirable words but as time goes by, we gradually forget those word. It is because others' experience is not quite important to me. On the other hands, if we are in an emergency, it comes to us very significantly. By solving that difficulty, we can learn how to surmount many forms of difficulty more efficiently. Let's assume that you drive in a strange way. Though there are a navigation, maps and even you have been told about the route a lot of times, they may not be helpful to you. Only after experience that knew road by your own, you will master the place thoroughly. In this sense, nothing is more effective in learning than experiencing.
Secondly, you can mature yourself by experiencing things. Nearly everything that we experience at first comes to us as an advanture. Under the advantures, we usually have many hardships and we should solve the difficulties by ourselves. During solving the problems, we often feel somewhat different from what we have heared and it which we gained through that experience will be one of our precious. By doing so, we can get an independence as well as a sense of resposibility. One recent research study shows that children who have working mothers have the higher ability to solve problems on their own with better sense of responsibility and independence than children with not working moms. This results attribute the reason to the fact that children who cook, clean, go to the school, and take care of their younger sisters or brothers because of the absent of moms can learn how to treat many problems by themselves more effectively. This illustrates how many things people can learn by experiencing.
To sum up, I think experiencing things have more advantages than just listening to others opinion. Most of all, people can learn more and better when they are exposed to the real situation. In addition, people can be more matured only after solving problems on their own not just depending on others advices. |