text: Starting off, receiving different viewpoints on a topic can be the difference between a great choice and a horrible one. To begin, you get viewpoints that might not even cross your mind otherwise. For example, let's say you're in an extremely long business interview. During this interview, you get up to get a small cup of water. Although you may not think anything of it, that interviewer might get offended by the fact that you didn't offer getting him or her anything to drink. Even though this seems like a small and unnoticed flaw on your part, it can come off to the employer as being rude, causing you to be viewed as someone "unfit for the job." The next reason you should get different viewpoints is because you can learn what's appropriate in certain places. A good example to use here is trying out for a team sport or a role in a play. If the coach or director is on the fence about whether or not you'd be a positive addition to the group, you need to know what to do and what not to do. People can share with you how it's not appropriate to say, "I hate this sport because..," in the middle of a tryout. Saying that sentence could be the reason you don't make the cut. A final reason you should get different viewpoints is because it helps open your eyes to realize that not everyone will look at things the same way. Just like a pessimist and an optimist wouldn't view getting an eighty out of one hundred on a test the same way, not each interviewer or coach will view things the same. In short, asking for different opinions and receiving different viewpoints can show what's appropriate, that everyone won't have the same view, and other, unheard of views exist.