“Is it better to use your own knowledge and experience to solve your problems rather than asking someone for help and advice?

            The topic for today’s blog is the question, “Is it better to use your own knowledge and experience to solve your problems rather than asking someone for help and advice?”  In my opinion, it is better to ask for help.  Sometimes it is good to decide what to do by yourself but it never hurts to ask for help.  Today’s blog is going to talk about what I think are the pros and cons to this question.

            The main reason why it is better to ask questions is because no matter how smart you are, there is not a single human being that knows everything that goes on in the world.  Knowledge is something that nobody can completely master.  The point in this is that everyone has a different range in their knowledge.  For example, a particular person might have good knowledge in Biology, and another person might have a good knowledge in Math.  If the person who knows a lot about biology and only about biology has to do some math, he will run into problems.  This is when he has to ask for help.  People can and should fill each other’s weaknesses and therefore, ask questions if run into difficulties.

            My second reason for thinking this is that if one doesn’t ask questions and tries to figure it out all by himself, he will struggle and gain a lot of stress.  A perfect example of this is that teachers always tell students to ask questions in school because if they do it by themselves, they might not fully understand the material or panic about the things they don’t completely understand.  Although some people who are lucky or have a particular ability in that subject can fully understand the material by themselves, it never hurts to ask a question. This is not saying that trying to do something on your own is always bad.  In Korea, it is considered better to do something by yourself than to do something with the help of others.  Also, people that have experienced what life is can tell people who didn’t what it is like and make a difference.  For example, if someone lost a family member for the first time, it will be very tough.  Someone with experience of a family member dying can help this person by telling him about what he felt and what he did to overcome that sadness.

            My last reason is that if everyone thought for themselves and lived in their “individual” world, there will be not one truth but a lot of truths, which will lead to problems.  For example, there are a surplus amount of facts that have been found due to asking people about their thoughts and knowledge and combining what they found out.  If everyone has different opinions about everything, it is certain there will be problems.

            These are the main reasons why I think that asking questions is better than figuring out everything by oneself. THANK YOU~~