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We learn the most valuable lessons in life from struggling with our limitations rather than from enjoying our successes.

Life is full of non-obvious decisions, and every time such a decision arises, we can either make the right call or the wrong one. The prompt argues that when we make a wrong decision, we learn a more valuable lesson than when we make the right one. I strongly agree with the prompt for two reasons.
To begin with, when we make a wrong decision and start struggling with our limitations, we learn a lot more about what these limitations are and how valuable would it be to avoid them. Take, for example, two people: the first person got a college diploma and the second one started to work after high school. The person who didn't finish college has significantly fewer job opportunities. She constantly struggles with limitations such as missing knowledge or strict job requirements. So she can learn a valuable lesson about the skills she should obtain and gain a perspective on which university degree she needs to pursue. The other person, the one who got a college degree, would have more success in finding a good job, but the only lesson she can learn from that experience is that her decision to go to college was correct. When you face limitations, you can learn how to avoid them in the future, which is very useful. However, when you make the right decision and enjoy your success, you only learn that your decision was correct, but you may not be able to apply this knowledge in the future.
Furthermore, people can derive more general rules from their losses than from their gains. For instance, if someone invested their money in bitcoin when its price was low, and then sold it after the price has raised, this person can only learn that some investments can result in high gain. Yet she would not be able to tell with certainty if any given asset would be profitable or not. But there may be another person who invested most of their money into some other cryptocurrency and lost most of the investment. This person will hopefully learn an important lesson: some assets are risky. Thus you should not put all of your savings into a single box, you should diversify. This is a general rule, that can be applied to any further investments this person would make.
Some people would say that learning from success is more valuable because you learn exactly what you should do to succeed, and when you learn from your failures you only learn what you shouldn't do. But I believe that this is not true in most real-life scenarios. Life is complex, and most of the time you just can't replicate your success because you can't repeat your actions with the same result: you can't go to college twice in the same field and gain twice as much knowledge and you can't go back in time to invest more money in bitcoin when it was cheap. Thus, in my opinion, struggling with limitations provides us with more valuable lessons.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... work after high school. The person who didnt finish college has significantly fewer ...
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Suggestion: Thus,
...mportant lesson: some assets are risky. Thus you should not put all of your savings ...
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Suggestion: shouldn't
...m your failures you only learn what you shouldnt do. But I believe that this is not true...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... complex, and most of the time you just cant replicate your success because you cant...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...cant replicate your success because you cant repeat your actions with the same resul...
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Suggestion: can't; cannot
... your actions with the same result: you cant go to college twice in the same field a...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...nd gain twice as much knowledge and you cant go back in time to invest more money in...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, such as, in my opinion, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 12.9106741573 23% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2323.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 503.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61829025845 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73578520332 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37534538334 2.79657885939 85% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44930417495 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 708.3 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.7405138715 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.590909091 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8636363636 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95454545455 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.270545484818 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0785738552767 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686249198112 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162898870667 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0443459363173 0.0667264976115 66% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 48.8420337079 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.81 12.1639044944 81% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.08 8.38706741573 84% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 100.480337079 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, such as, in my opinion, to begin with

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

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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: