As the question says, I think there are two ways of our learning about life.   First one is learning from advice from others such as parents, friends, and teachers.   Second one is acquiring knowledge or skills from our own experiences one by one.   I think that both ways are very useful with each way.  Others' advice is filled with their exreriences and becomes knowledge of those who seek the advice.   Self experience is of course tells us what was wrong  in the situation.  

 

  Others sometimes give us advice based on their own  experiences.  In short, if we ask for others' advice we can know advisers' own experience without experiencing by ourselves.  These knowledge are very useful for us to predict our future situation applying the advice or advisers' experience to our own case.  We can avoid mistake of our decision by the useful advice.  If we have a purpose and can prepare everything in advance by making the most of others' advice of realizing it, we can do it with the least effort.  Teachers' advice about way of studying or deciding students' future plan is good example.

 

  Our own experience on the other hand have no manual.  It becomes the real discipline of our life.  Since we can gain the knowledge or secret key to deal with situation for ourselves, this is absolutely apply to our every case.   For instance, in a adversity of our life, we struggle to deal with the problems and finally succeed to overcome difficulties.  We can gradually make our own device to tackle trouble in my mind with trial and error by only our method.  Thus, the secret key might be different from others.   In this way, what we gain from my experience is absolutely suitable for ourselves and the knowledge is always more useful than others' advice if we experience the same trouble that we had ever dealt with.

 

  Thinking about both characteristics of others' advice and our knowledge gained by our own experience, I think others' advice or warning is more helpful for me because of my few experience.  I am twenty two years old and even have no experience of working as a full-time worker.  Therefore, my knowledge from own experience is insufficient to solve my many problems in my life.  Thus, before I experience many things and find out my own discipline from the mature experience, I would like to seek others' advice many times.