We can usually learn more from people whose views we share than from whose views contradict our own
The above statement asks us to examine the benefits and disadvantages of pitting our views against those who disagree with them. It would seem to be counter-intuitive to us but, we will more than often learn a lot more from people who disagree with us. This will usually take place through a lot of argument and debate, nevertheless there is a lot to be learned from those who contradict us.
One would find great comfort and ease in deliberating and discussing their ideas with those who share similar beliefs, it will often produce inferior results as compared to when one is willing to test their ideas against those who would disagree with them. The functioning of democracy relies on this principle, through debate two opposing parties examine various facets of the bill or policy in question. This often leads to the bill being examined in greater detail, resulting in a draft which covers a lot of factors which would have been otherwise overlooked if an insular approach had been adopted.
Academic debates which often lead to reshaping of global policies and resolutions to a lot of conflicts. These proceedings often involve two parties having opposing ideas to confront the other on their shortcomings, forcing each other to re-evaluate their stand on the issue and ultimately coaxing each other to acknowledge the factor that were neglected when the argument was formulated. Though one party either will lose the argument and to the layman it would seem as if it was nothing more than a brawl, those involved in the deliberations will always appreciate their counter-parts for pointing what had been lacking in their ideologies. They will often walk away wiser than when they had walked in.
Looking into the modern-day industry this is much more quantifiable. Due to technological advancements the present-day customer is empowered to alter the course of the industry than ever before. Manufacturers and Service providers willing to accept criticism and acknowledge competition and opposing ideologies will experience greater economic growth. For example, consider established auto-makers, a decade ago giants like Ford, Ferrari etc., would have been unwilling to consider the EV market to be a credible threat – today one would find these conglomerates investing large sums of capital on this and cashing in on these investments. Despite their conflicting ideas (Electric v/s Gas) they are willing to acknowledge their counterparts and more than willing to profit of it!!
Despite the principle of examining your ideas against those who would seem to be daunting in practice, we have to acknowledge the benefits of such a practice. As Sun Tzu would say “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”, despite it being a straightforward idea masks a profound ideology. We would find an abundance of such instances as cited above if we look at the fields of sciences, business, academics etc. Hence, we can learn a lot from people whose views directly contradict our own rather than limiting ourselves to a selective group of people who share similar view as our own.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 213, Rule ID: KNOW_NOW[4]
Message: Did you mean 'now'?
Suggestion: now
...uld say 'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, look, nevertheless, so, as for, as to, for example, you know
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 515.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11844660194 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.763781212 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8792561434 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514563106796 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 816.3 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.0544359864 60.3974514979 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.444444444 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6111111111 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.22222222222 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215480015671 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739450136046 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.140002632084 0.0758088955206 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128988593556 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.133563674245 0.0667264976115 200% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.