<p>Are people more likely to be productive and successful when they ignore the opinions of others?</p>
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<p>As the old saying goes, two is always better than one. This may be a trite saying but it actually holds an enormous meaning. Frankly speaking, even some of the strong-minded individuals would not hesitate to attribute some of their success to the advices and opinions of others since being successful alone is often implausible. Examples from history, current events and my personal anecdote explicitly demonstrated that accepting the opinions of others will often lead to success.</p>
<p>One important reason people are more likely to success when they accept the opinions of others is that opinions of others may act as good war strategies. This idea is clearly supported by the example of great Chinese general, Liu Bei, during the era of the Three Kingdoms. Liu Bei had been a great general throughout that era. He had successfully led his army and won several great wars such as the Battle of Chi Bi in which he defeated the force of the oppose faction led by Cao Cao, and of course, Liu Bei did not win this war entirely on his own but with the assistances of his war advisors such as Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was an extremely clever mastermind of Liu Bei. During the Battle of Chi Bi, Liu Bei had faced a dilemma in which there was a lack of arrow supplies. However, in light of Zhuge Liangs plan, the Liu Bei force had successfully stolen the enemys arrow supply and this played an important part of the victory of this battle. </p>
<p>Furthermore, the renowned video game company, Electronic Art, also demonstrated the importance of the opinions of others. As most people, especially the hardcore gamers, know, Electronic Art has always maintained good gaming qualities, but do you know how? Unequivocally speaking, it is criticisms that maintain the qualities. Criticism allows EA to understand the strengths and shortcomings of its products. By knowing its shortcomings, EA can then be able to identify what aspect of its games should be improved. For example, when the Battlefield series games first released in 2002, many critics were given by the gamers. Therefore, EA took most of the critics as advises and improved its next upcoming Battlefield series games. As a result, EAs games became more and more popular. All thanks to the constructive criticisms given. Without critics on its games, EA may not be successful until now.</p>
<p>Moreover, this idea can also be proved by my personal anecdote on learning English vocabulary. Ever since I started learning English vocabulary, I have been using my own strategy which was to stare at the words and read in mind instead of my parents strategy which was to read them out loud while writing them down. Slowly as time passes, I realized that my strategy did not bring my English scores up. Therefore, after a long term decision, I then decided to accept my parents opinions and strategy. A strategy of parents that I ignored has now proved to be successful and useful by my drastic improvements in English exam results. Fortunately I did take my parents opinion in account or else my English may still remain at the same level as before.</p>
<p>Through the analyses of above examples, one should, indeed, realize the importance of accepting others opinions as well as to understand how opinions of others can be used as improvements or enhancements to many things such as war strategies, product selling, and learning styles of people. In fact, one should always take in accounts of others opinions regardless they are good or bad since these opinions may be great assistants for ones success.</p>