"Most of the people around us are nothing but...other people.Their thoughts are other people opinions, their lives mirror other lives, their passions, nothing but quotations".
Oscar Wilde
I can not write this article, without mentioning all the dream killers, the traitors of ideals that I have met along in my life. People that, without a reason have started to talk bad, to laugh, or to insult others that try to do something different. When everybody knows that the only way of succeeding is doing something different.
You remember the way someone is treated when he has a different idea.
You must remember what happened to Giordano Bruno, when supporting Copernic in the idea that the Earth was round. He was burned, just like other people who "insulted" the general order of thinking to that moment.
When the spanish Inquisition killed people who wouldn't share the belief in God. Or the Crusades. And examples are many.
So it is clear that it is not always better to listen to others, and the many are not all the time right.
But there are times when listening to others is the right thing to do.
For example, when you intend to buy goods, it is clever to listen to others, to learn how did the goods help others, and what is their real worth.
Also, when we try to achieve a goal, we can look for a mentor that already achieved that goal, so we won't have to make the mistakes that they made.
Times when you don't need to listen to other people is when other people talk bad about others, or when envious people try to discourage you. Also, don't listen to people without results. You don't need advice in how to fail at something. You need the best advice in how to succeed.
I want to know your opinion as well.
Write it down in a comment below.
Oscar Wilde
I can not write this article, without mentioning all the dream killers, the traitors of ideals that I have met along in my life. People that, without a reason have started to talk bad, to laugh, or to insult others that try to do something different. When everybody knows that the only way of succeeding is doing something different.
You remember the way someone is treated when he has a different idea.
You must remember what happened to Giordano Bruno, when supporting Copernic in the idea that the Earth was round. He was burned, just like other people who "insulted" the general order of thinking to that moment.
When the spanish Inquisition killed people who wouldn't share the belief in God. Or the Crusades. And examples are many.
So it is clear that it is not always better to listen to others, and the many are not all the time right.
But there are times when listening to others is the right thing to do.
For example, when you intend to buy goods, it is clever to listen to others, to learn how did the goods help others, and what is their real worth.
Also, when we try to achieve a goal, we can look for a mentor that already achieved that goal, so we won't have to make the mistakes that they made.
Times when you don't need to listen to other people is when other people talk bad about others, or when envious people try to discourage you. Also, don't listen to people without results. You don't need advice in how to fail at something. You need the best advice in how to succeed.
I want to know your opinion as well.
Write it down in a comment below.
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