Using your knowledge and experience to solve the problems VS. Asking other people for advice Hi! I'm TOEFL beginner. I'm trying to practice my writing alone. If possible, I would like to get help from you about my grammar and vocabulary. I would also appreciate any other advice you may have. Many thanks! When I get in trouble, there are two ways to solve the problems. Solve it alone or get some advices from other people. It may depends on the circumstances, but I think it's better to try to solve the problems based on my knowledge and experience before asking other people. Because, first of all, I can obtain the way to solve it alone. It is important to solve the problem, but I think it is more important to find out how to solve it myself. This is related to ability to think creatively and independently. If I get too accustomed to getting advices from others, I may have difficulty in situations where I have to find a way alone. Because I cannot always expect to get the help of others, I have to get used to solving my own problems. Second, it is better in terms of acquisition efficiency. Sincephenomenon is organic, to cope with a single problem, it is necessary to know a great deal of knowledge associated with it. Moreover, the knowledge learned from others is not remembered long. Thus, when another similar problem occurs, the ability to deal with it may be reduced. If I have solved the problem or have tried to solve it alone, I can apply obtained solution to find another solution. Suppose that I am trying to cook fried egg but there is no cooking oil. If I get advice from someone and find that I can use butter instead of cooking oil, I can solve my problem right now. But what happens next if I have a situation where I do not even have butter? Should I seek advice from people again? On the other hand, if I recognize the absence of cooking oil, identify the characteristics of it, select substances with similar properties, test one by one to see if they have sufficient effect, and conclude that butter is a substance often found in the kitchen of those substances I checked, I would be able to cope with it when I faced such a problem. In this way, I think it is better to solve it on my own based on my knowledge and experience rather than relying on someone else's advice in order to fundamentally solve the problem situation. It takes a lot of time and effort and sometimes it can fail to find a perfect solution, but it is well worth it. It is not too late to seek advice from others after failing.