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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.

From whom we can learn more, people whose views we share or people whose views contradict ours? In the author's statement, the former group of persons prevails. Because the author pointed out that disagreement can cause stress and therefore inhibit learning. Nevertheless, whether disagreement will inhibit learning or on the contrary stimulate learning depends.

The point that disagreement cause stress and inhibit learning works for some times. A person have reason to lose faith in front of a disagreement and thus stop chasing the value of his or her own. The author's statement makes sense in this way. But as for which one is much more valuable for our learning, we can not draw a conclusion easily and hastily.

Looking back to our childhood, how much we had learned from our best friends who always did things in the same way as we did. At least, this was the case for me. When I was a little girl, I had a very close friend. We did almost everything together and shared views of doing those things. We were having lunch together, playing dolls together, watching television together and doing homework together. We looks like a couple of twin sisters and looking backwards, I really had learned a lot from her. She is smart and hard-working, and full of characters I admire. I believe it is much common for people, especially for children, that we can get self-acknowledgement from those whose views we share. Therefore, we can be encouraged in learning and growing in the way be precious. This encouragement will as a result help people to become more confident in learning knowledge.

On the other hand, disagreement, which may bring more bad than good to children in growing, can also do good in learning. For the moment that one's idea has not been accepted and even challenged by the others, the best way to prove the oneself must be raising more evidence and provide more persuasive demonstrations. On the way of achieving this, one have to study more. Disagreement therefore can help to take another perspective, which is quite the opposite, to think about the argument. No doubtfully it makes some good. Even if eventually the contradiction turns out to be wrong, the process rewards the most. Disagreement is therefore also valuable in learning. Yes, it causes stress. Yet, it stimulates learning instead of inhibits learning by arousing an air of competition.

However, when trying to be persuasive and take those views contradict into consideration, we are possible to meet difficulty and have no idea what will be the best way to achieve that goal. In the case, to whom can we turn for help? I think this situation is quite the same we have talked about in the first part: we need acknowledgement and we need someone to be on our side. Take a close look at the modern society, nobody is achieving a goal on his or her own. We need a team to battle. Moreover, within a team, we have collaboration and competition. We work with our team members who share the same objective. We learn from each other as well as from the competitors.

Therefore, people whose views we share and people whose views contradict our own is like the two faces of a coin, both of which have its own effect to present a treasure. However, it has more to do with the attitude we look at them. We can give up as well as get motivated under the stress and pressure given by disagreement.

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