Modern society, dominated by the idea of individualism, attaches excessive importance to self-reliance. However, I believe in the value of consulting others when we are confronted with problems.
Admittedly, it can be argued that solving problems independently enables one to develop a deeper grasp of the issue at hand. This is understandable considering how long we spend pondering on, manipulating, and eventually resolving the problem. However, overemphasizing independence should by no means be regarded as some sort of gold principle and indeed it is not the optimum approach to tackling challenges.
To begin with, seeking advice can be far more effective to overcome difficulties. When one is puzzled by one issue at hand, it is more than likely that he neglects some crucial aspects. Under such circumstances, it is no use focusing on whatever he already comes up with; turning to other perspectives is obviously more sensible. Observed from various angles, the majority of mysteries should be unraveled, leading to the "Eureka" moment more elegantly. My own experience should suffice to illustrate the point. In high school, studying 3-D geometry was a daunting task for me since I had trouble visualizing the 3-D objects in my mind. Originally, I thought I could manage to tough it out on my own just as I learned all other subjects. However, apparently, I underestimated the adversity imposed by the lack of talent. Frustrated for several weeks on end, I gave up and resorted to my friend, who had a natural geometric talent. Such help smoothed the learning to curve since I improved in efficiency and was able to analyze more problems. With some patterns found and tricks acquired, I then performed better in geometry.
In addition, seeking assistance contributes to healthy, positive relationships. For one thing, psychologists have long proved that as human beings have a strong inclination to maintain a cognitive consistence, when they show a goodwill gesture to someone, they tend to think of him as someone to be worthy of their goodwill. Then it is only natural that when others invest time and energy in us, they will develop a more favourable impression on us. Therefore, seeking advice from others actually makes them like us. Moreover, once resorting to others' help, we also hint that we are willing to lend a hand in the future, and if such obligation is fulfilled as expected, trust grows between both parties. Businessmen know better than anyone that helping and being helped are intertwined closely and both of them are indispensable in building personal connections with others.
To conclude, seeking advice from others results in several positive outcomes, including improving effectiveness and building healthy relationships, so I am convinced that one should not face challenges alone.
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Essay reference notes: This topic is refereed from another essay topic, developed by user: Steven Huang
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, apparently, but, however, if, moreover, so, then, therefore, in addition, sort of, for one thing, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2380.0 1977.66487455 120% => OK
No of words: 452.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26548672566 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16655915392 2.67179642975 119% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601769911504 0.524837075471 115% => OK
syllable_count: 756.9 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.5650099564 48.9658058833 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.47826087 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.652173913 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52173913043 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151693429034 0.236089414692 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384186234827 0.076458572812 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0306575513754 0.0737576698707 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0696211305543 0.150856017488 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295474884212 0.0645574589148 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 86.8835125448 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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