Advice

        People often use this cliché: If advice were good, it would be sold, not given. Furthermore, people say that pillows are the best advisers because they don’t question us. In conclusion, listening to others’ advice may be … unadvisable.
       Self-reflection helps us decide on our next steps in life. Our choices often don’t lead us along the best paths, because even good advice cannot prevent future problems. Some people may say that advice from those with wide life experience can be good for us, due to their backgrounds. But we have to keep in mind that life experiences belong to people with different personalities and cultures. For adventurers, cautious people’s advice is not very welcome. This also applies the other way round; cautious people may not welcome advice from adventurers. Everyone makes their own choices in life, and advice from ambitious people is not always well-received.
        This question contains a contradiction. Why is advice from mature people not welcome, even if they have faced many difficulties in life? Aren’t they able to help us?
        This depends on our advisers and their intentions. We can advise ourselves through studies and life experiences, for example. I once wrote that “no” is a powerful skill to avoid problems. If we are facing a dilemma, the best attitude is saying “no”. Listening to our hearts and instincts is often the best advice, and our doubts are the best warning that something is not going well. Is it safe or necessary to take risks?
      In fact, listening is one of the best recommendations, and listening carefully is even better. In short, if we are searching for information on a professional, we can assume that if they have provided good services to others, they will also be good for us. On the other hand, news in the papers, despite its supposed credibility, is not always reliable, because nowadays, we are living through difficult times, and what we read is not always welcome. When we only hear what we want to hear and follow our ego, this attitude is like a mouse walking to a trap.
       A lion might advise us to silence the dogs that warn us of its arrival because their barking disturbs nature. At the same time, it might tell us to raise pigs because they don’t disturb nature or make a mess of our homes. In fact, both are good pieces of advice, and they make sense. But who would be the beneficiary of this advice?
       An economist might advise us to buy shares. This may sound like good advice; after all, they are professionals. An Influencer might teach us to follow their advice to become rich. Would that be good advice? The first likely has many shares to sell, the second, simply, earns money by exploiting people’s greed and dreaming of travelling around the world. Why would they advise strangers?
       Free advice can hide bad intentions.

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