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 w

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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.

Making right decisions is very important. We make decisions every day and take the consequences. Some people believe that the right way of making decisions is by listening to the advice of friends and family, while others may disagree. In my view, following the suggestion of friends and family can cause serious problems for three reasons.

First, by listening to wrong advice, one may choose a wrong career. For example, I have a uncle who has been working in the government office since the day he graduated from college. He was considered as the most successful man in our family because of the high salary and additional benefits of his job. So when I was about to graduate, my parents sincerely took my uncle’s advice of letting me join his office in order to be as successful as he was. So I did it. However, the government reduced the salary of all employees and canceled all the benefits. And my parents relazied that they made a wrong decision by listening to my unlce’s advice, leading me to a wrong career.

Second, listening to others can waste a lot of money. For example, I was planing to buy a television and I turned to my friends for advice. They told me Sony was the best for its high quality and many functions. So I took their advice and it cost me a lot of money to bought a Sony TV. After a few days, I felt there was almost no difference between my old TV and the new one. Besides, most of the functions, which my friends said was esstiontial, turns out to be useless. I felt my money was wasted because there was no need to buy such an expensive TV at all.

Third, you will suffer a unpleasant life after you took wrong advice. For example, I saw from the news that one talented boy killed himself because he was bankrupt. He used to be a rich man before he was cheated by his partner who told him that the best way to be richer is to go to the casino. He trusted his fellow so much that he even didn’t think himself until it was too late. This sad story told me that wrong advice can bring unpleasant consequences to one’s life.

In a nutshell, I was full convinced that listening to others possesses many problems for it gives you a wrong direction in your career, causes financial problems and make an unpleasant ending of life. Therefore, it is definitely right to make our own decisions.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, third, while, as to, for example, in my view

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 63.0 43.0788530466 146% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1922.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 428.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.49065420561 4.8611393121 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60573837481 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490654205607 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 604.8 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.0640302648 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.88 100.406767564 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.12 20.6045352989 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04 5.45110844103 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.112083078629 0.236089414692 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.031631524972 0.076458572812 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518019195489 0.0737576698707 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0676398042116 0.150856017488 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034759006487 0.0645574589148 54% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 11.7677419355 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 58.1214874552 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 10.1575268817 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.47 10.9000537634 78% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.14 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 86.8835125448 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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