"Some people say that the best preparation for life is learning to work with others and be cooperative.Others take the opposite view and say that learning to be competitive is the best preparation. Discuss these positions, using specific examples of both. Tell which one you agree with and explain why."
During all
our lives, we have to deal with different kinds of people. Nobody lives alone,
and daily we have to work with others. Its not something you learn how to from
high school or college, but it’s a knowledge you acquire throughout your life.
Since we
were kids, we had to learn to share our mother’s attention with our brothers,
and along with that, we learnt that being kind is essential to our survival, and
we have to give and take to obtain mutual benefits. Things are real harder if
we try to do all by ourselves.
Nevertheless, before learning how to work with
people around, you have to learn how to deal with yourself. Making mistakes
teach us how to accept that we are human beings, and that is part of the path. All
improvement process begins from ourselves, but to improve involves leaving
someone behind, and it generates a sense of competition that sometimes can go
unnoticed by us. For example, when you take a test in order to enter a university,
you are competing with other but it all depends on your own effort to get what
you want, and an enormous strength is required to overcome the obstacles, many
of them made by your own mind. Then, the competition is such a consequence, not
a way to success.
Once we
recognize other people have valuable knowledge, we learn that we must respect
them and we learn that we can use good relationships in our favor. In my
opinion, the best preparation for life is learning to work with others, because
this way you can help each other and improve yourself along in all aspects of life.
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