Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership

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Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership

‘Learn from your mistakes’ is a statement you may have come across multiple times. Looking at past successes and failures can help you improve. This is especially true for leaders as they are in a place where their decision can affect many people. The Prompt suggests that understanding the past is of little use to current leaders, but that is incorrect for two major reasons.

Firstly, one can learn a tremendous amount from mistakes made in the past. This is very crucial for political leaders as leading a country is not easy and mistakes are bound to happen. Foreign relations is a very important part of being President/Prime Minister. In the past India had a very volatile relation with Pakistan. With the help of past instances, we can educate ourselves on what went wrong and how we can fix it. Current leaders can learn from mistakes their predecessors have made and can aid in establishing cooperation. This would not be possible without the past.

Secondly, just like there have been failures in the past, there have been successes as well. By looking at past successes, we can gain inspiration, motivation and try to replicate that success. For example, a newly appointed CEO of a very successful company will take a look at the past of the company, how they started and gained their success and replicate that method since it is working well. The past serves as a blueprint to what works and doesn't work in that particular field. It is an essential tool for success.

Lastly, it is recognized that the situation influencing the failures and successes , may not apply to a current scenario but there is still so much to learn from it. It may not apply to our situation but it can surely encourage and inspire leaders.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, lastly, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1445.0 2235.4752809 65% => OK
No of words: 300.0 442.535393258 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81666666667 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.55969084622 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69230928121 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 215.323595506 75% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536666666667 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 441.0 704.065955056 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.2753810364 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.2777777778 118.986275619 67% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14922043871 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0518162092572 0.0831039109588 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730413870488 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919613232585 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536098352651 0.0667264976115 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.1392134831 68% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 48.8420337079 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 12.1743820225 69% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 100.480337079 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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