We Should Learn From Others

In these Books of Confucius you can see again how he teaches all his people and gives them good lessons. We, in our modern society should be able to learn and apply the lessons that he gave to his listeners and many more important people have given to their followers. He tells us, “Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”(Pg 45) This is something that Jesus also said to his disciples when he was alive. This is an example of two people who said common things. We should listen this and do it, if these two people said it and applied it we must think it is a wise thing to do.

Not only I learn things from others but we should all learn things from others to be better each day, improving things that you did before. But the problem with some people is that they think they don’t have mistakes and therefore not correct them. Confucius has an answer to that, “To make a mistake and yet not change your ways - this is what is called truly making a mistake.”(Pg 45) This tells me a lot, explaining not only why arrogant people are so stubborn but also why they never change. Because they don’t accept who they are and what they do wrong they never change, meaning they truly make a mistake. This is why some people do mistakes and accept them and then go on to become better people. In the other side we see people who don’t listen to others and accumulate many mistakes without correcting them, and when they try to become better they cant. We are better of if we don’t think only about ourselves but about others