Other's Idea can’t change your life.


I am sure not a single day passes without you listening to people advising you on one thing or the other. The advices may range from carrier to behavior, from romance to dressing sense, from attitude to hairstyle, from the kind of men/women you should go after to the brands you should buy. The list goes on with myriad advices.

But are these advices are of any use? Don’t we seek advice with a yearning of accomplice? As a matter of fact, people mostly seek advice when they already know the answer but wish they didn’t. It’s true that you can always learn from other’s mistakes rather than making all of those yourself, but the learning is often so situational and relative that they are hardly applicable anywhere else.

It’s always more easy to advise others than to follow them yourselves. As Jughead articulated once “Take my advice, I don’t use it anyway”. Moreover, if the advice is going to end up framed on a wall, it’s better to use your own mind for a change. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. But then, not all advices are superfluous and useless. As H.W. Smith puts it “The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right”.

Therefore, the best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.




3 comments:

Ravi Singh December 8, 2009 at 11:13 AM  

I am little disagree with this..I guess people ask advice when they are confused and they have more than one alternatives..They seek advice to come to some conclusion.A experienced person who already faced this situation, can give you a nice solution or at least some hints(remember a human being is social animal) , what to do..So I always looks for advice when I got blanked, and same time when someone ask for it.

Abhishek December 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM  

Obviously, in some cases you have no other alternatives than to seek help but I am more concerned about the unsolicited advice that we come across. We can always make a choice on our own rather than approaching others. Not to undermine their wisdom but to accentuate ours..

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