Topic: What Has Been the Best Advice You Have Received?

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Many people have had an experience of meeting with a mentor for their lives. A mentor would be a parent, a teacher, and an author. My mentor is a teacher of my sixth grade. While I was in his class, he sometimes asked me; “What is your dream?” or “What will you want to do in your future?” he let me know what I will do in the future by his questions and words. When I graduated from the elementary school, he gave me advice: “You should be a better human being, and you should take responsibility in every situation.” His advice led me to be honest, trustworthy, and diligent. His advice was the best advice that I have ever received. First of all, my teacher’s advice that I should be a better human being led me to be honest since the day of the elementary school graduation ceremony. Being honest makes me open and clean. For example, when my company was failing, I offered my employees to leave my company. At that time, I did not have any ability to give them salary, and I totally lost enthusiasm in my business. Therefore, I explained to them the difficult situation that my company was facing, and I also told all the information about my business’ operations to them. Even though I did not pay them any salary, they still wanted to work with me because they appreciated my honest attitude. They also encouraged me with kind words. My drooping spirits began to revive with their kind words, and I decided to keep working with them. Eventually, my business began to improve and gradually developed well because I followed my teacher’s advice. Second, my elementary teacher’s advice that I should be a better human being led me to be trustworthy. I set myself to kept his word because the teacher’s advice still stay with me. For example, when I sold lady’s apparels at a department store, I met many shop managers like me. However, their behavior was not like mine. They sometimes stole

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