“Sometimes the Best Advice Is No Advice”
I heard this phrase the other day and it made me wonder…”sometimes the best advice is no advice at all.” What exactly does that mean?
While I believe that people shouldn’t give advice if they don’t know what they’re talking about, I don’t necessarily think that this is the case with the saying. It just doesn’t seem right.
Could it be that the phrase means you could learn more by experiencing difficulties yourself rather than avoiding pain by listening to advice? If so, that is definitely true.
I believe advice can only come from those that have experienced the pain and learned from it. While I could do my best to teach somebody how to do a backflip, somebody who has actually fell on their butt a hundred times before figuring it out and becoming a gymnastics teacher would certainly be more qualified.
What do you think? Am I off track with my analysis?
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