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Sample Response to GMAT AWA Issue Questions
7.
“The best way to give advice to other people is to find out what they
want and then advise them how to attain it.” Discuss the extent to which
you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your
point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience,
observations, or reading.
I agree that the best way to give advice to other people is to find out
what they want and then give them advice about how to attain it. It
means that we must understand the person first then give our opinions to
him just as reference.
First, you must find out what the person's real thought and intention;
otherwise, you may give wrong advice or the advice which is nonsense to
the person. For example, before I immigrate to Canada I promised to lend
my apartment to one of my friends in my home country because he was so
poor that he did not have his own apartment yet. But before I left my
country, the friend kept telling me that his wife did not like to live
in other person's apartment. I misunderstood his idea and gave him the
advice: You could borrow loan from bank and buy your own apartment then
your wife will live in her own apartment. And I rent the apartment to a
tenant other than lent the apartment to the friend. Now, we are not
friend any more. He was angry with me. Why? My other friend told me this
previous fiend's real intention, when he said that his wife did not like
to live in other person's apartment, was to buy my apartment in a
discount.
Furthermore, only when you find out what the person's real intention is,
you can decide if you should give advice or not. I give you the same
person's example. When he kept calling me that he did not earn enough
money when he worked in his home town and asked my advice. He told me
the wage he got in a year and I compare it with my own wage. His wage is
just one-tenth of mine. So, I give my advice that he could come to my
company. I help him to come to my company. Now, His real intention was
revealed: He wanted to live the same living standard as I was or share
the money, which I previously earned, with him. If I could really catch
his intention at the very beginning. I am sure I will not give him any
advice.
In conclusion, if you want to give advice to someone, you must know his
real intention first. Only in this way, you will give good advice to
him. And you must keep in mind that sometimes it is better not to give
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