▶ Your Answer : Some people believe that it is much better to learn from and take after people who are at a higher level than to learn from people at the similar level. However, I am totally against the idea for two reasons. First of all, we can learn a lot from others by merely comparing differences with others. Also, it is easier to take after and act as people who are in the same level.
To begin with, people can develop themselves by making a comparison between them and others regardless of their levels. Every people in every level has different traits including own advantages and disadvantages in themselves. Though those advantages might vary from trivial ones to crucial ones, all of them would worth learning and carrying out. I would like to give an example of my friend. My friend, as a high school student had a very interesting hobby. She always observed others and wrote in her notebook about the things she could learn from. Other friends sometimes made fun of her, but she never stopped doing so. What is interesting is that, after 5 years then, she became a very successful businesswoman owning a big company by her own. When she was asked what is the secret of her success, she always say that she learned whatever things from others. This experience surely backs up the idea above.
On top of that, emulating a person who is in the similar level is much easier than with a person in a different level. People in different levels have a plethora of different environmental factors between them. When someone is about to learn something from others the process of copying one's behaviors is needed, and it would become easy if the person is in a similar level. There was a poll conducted by Korean Statistics Office to figure out the consensus view of people whether people in a similar level or in a higher level worth following. An overwhelming 77% of people ranked people in about the same level over people in higher levels as they considered actions taken by people in a different level would be difficult to copy. This poll has surely proven that it is more useful for people to learn from people in the same level.
To sum up, learning from other people who are in the identical level let people get lessons by comparing personal traits and also let them easily follow their behaviors which worth learning. In this regard, I firmly believe that it is better to earn lessons from people in the similar level. |