Poll: Do you listen to your own advice?
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I do about 80 percent of the time. The rest of it is usually horrible advice i sarcastically give to stupid people so i can see what they do.
I avoid giving advice in the format of "You should do action X because of reasoning Y." I prefer to tell people to reconsider the circumstances, and review their options. Sometimes I'll tell someone what I would do and why, but I always state that their decisions are ultimately their own and that I can't possibly know everything from their viewpoint. I try my best to follow the first parts of that. I like to think I give good advice.
Pony indeed.The stonker said:
Depends on what the advice is about, obviously some stuff you say which, while obvious and more intended for support, are really not that easy to do when in the same position. I do however tend to stick to my own principles and I'd like to think I try and take empathy in account with my advice, but with friends you generally say whatever you think they would like to hear or be pushed towards.
No, because I doubt people listen to my advice anyway, and because I let my head get in the way of my advice. No really. I think so much about the implications, undertones, and hidden goals of a social exchange, that I often completely miss the point and context of what's going in any given situation.
In other words, I over complicate things so much that my own advice is useless.
In other words, I over complicate things so much that my own advice is useless.
