text: First off, you learn from the lives of others. People have different life stories and when you take the time to listen to them you can learn from them and have it influence the choices you make to be better. If you ask multiple people for advice about something you'd get a diversity of responses, because of things such as age, gender, cultural background, religion, ethnicity, and class which effect the way people live daily. My grandpa was a poor man from Honduras who smoked, drank, and did many other things. He died many years ago from lung cancer. I never got to meet him, because he had made the decision to smoke when he was alive. I'd hear stories of him from my mom when I was younger and I've been using those stories of my grandpa to help me make better choices.