Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to use our personal knowledge and experience to solve problems, rather than asking other people for advice.Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
你是否同意以下说法?解决问题比较好利用自身的知识经验,而非寻求他人的帮助建议,请用具体的理由和事例来说明。
I do not agree that it is better to use our personal knowledge and experience to solve problems rather than asking other people for advice. Our individual knowledge and experience is always limited because it is impossible to know everything. Even Bill Gates,for example, does not know everything about software. When we ask other people for advice, we can overcome this limitation by combining their knowledge and experience with our own, and this makes a successful result more likely. If we do not ask others for advice, we actually limit the possibility of a successful solution.
What is more, advice is free and there is nothing to lose and everything to gain from asking other people for their opinions. The worse outcome is we ignore the advice and nothing has changed, and the best outcome is we learn some new and useful knowledge that helps us solve a problem. In fact, we only lose something when we do not ask for advice because we exclude new ideas. Progress comes from knowing and developing the ideas of others, or standing on the shoulders of giants, as Newton said. We can also learn from the mistakes of others without repeating the mistakes.
We should stand on the shoulders of our friends and family when we face a problem so that we see further than we can see alone. Socrates, the philosopher, commented that a truly wise person is someone who recognizes how little he or she knows. As far as I am concerned, only an ignorant person does not ask others for advice when facing a problem because that person does not recognize his or her limitations. Everyone can teach us something new and that knowledge is power.