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发表于 2007-7-27 00:10:58 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

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TOPIC: ISSUE1 - "We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
WORDS: 427 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2007-7-26 11:41:33

It seems to be human nature that we tend to associate with and accept advices from people who hold similar views, rather than people whose views contradict our own. But we can learn more from people who hold a different opinion, although it is bitter and stressful for most people. Whether disagreement would result in stress and inhibit learning depends totally on the acceptance and tolerance of personality.

It is true that we can learn more from our dissenters. People consider the same problem from different aspects. People who share view with us are possibly looking into the problem from the same aspect and perspective as we do. As a result, our conclusion might be empirical and partial without disagree voice from our dissenter, who possibly have diverse way in thinking. With a disagree view, we can find flaws in our view and perfect it as well. Just as the proverb goes "A coin has its two sides", complex problems usually have far more than two sides. Learning from dissenters, we can obtain new ways in thinking from various sides, as well as new solutions or a better one towards the same problem, thus sparking interest. In this way, critical thinking, insightful opinion, and better solution to problems are precious gifts what we gain from our dissenters.

Unfortunately, it seems bitter and stressful to accept opinions from the opposite sides. In my opinion, it is due to yourself whether you can accept different views. Naturally people are self-centered creatures, thinking themselves as in the right side, which make it even harder to accept opposite voices--as to express weakness to competitors. However, from what mentioned above, it is worthy to learn from the opposite side, rather than showing lack of ability. If you are tolerance and acceptive enough, disagreement would leads to critical thinking , insightful opinion, better solutions; if you are not, disagreement would bring you stress and inhibited learning, which gradually diminishing interest in the way to pursue truth.

Admittedly, people who share views with us are also important to us. When we need confidence, they support us with similar ideas. When we feel lonely, they are friends we can communicate to since sharing a similar way of perception and comprehension. Comparing rational acceptance of disagreement, we accept people who share views with us in an emotional way.

After careful examination of dissenters and consenters, I find that learning from dissenter and consenters both important. Dissenters provide us with rational thinking while consenters supply us with emotional needs. What will disagreement cause, a blessing or a curse, wholly depends on whether you are tolerant and acceptive to different voices.