You're not the only one, cdn. I'm so good at it *they* used to pay me the big bucks to be a corporate troubleshooter.
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Originally Posted by Mark Lapierre  And I think the reason is fairly simple. Giving advice is a mostly intellectual activity. |
I agree. It's soooooo easy to objectively view someone else's situation and see with perfect clarity the solution to their problem(s). After all, it's not your emotion - your heart, your feelings, your hurt, disappointment, disillusion, your desire. When the challenge is personal, well now you have a dog in the fight, as we say in Texas. Now you have a vested interest in how things turn out. Now you have a need to have your emotions validated and, with most of us anyway, a need to be right.
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Originally Posted by cdn2wheeler Is there any advice you give to people that you have a hard time taking yourself? |
Only all of it.
edit: So, the above was written when I was up not sleeping. This is following a dose of cold meds and a couple more hours shut-eye. Not enough shut-eye, mind you. I'm very sleepy but have a test today and must. get. up. (Just for fun, let's see if one makes more sense than the other!)
I thought just now when I woke up that perhaps congratulations are in order. No, really. Think about it. a) you've evolved far enough (learned enough) to be cognizant in a situation of the need for change or a novel approach. b) you can articulate said approach well enough to offer it to others and now (this is the congratulatory part), c) you have developed sufficient self-insight to become aware when you would benefit from applying your own thought-full words.
That's great! Don't you think? And of course, in the above paragraph everytime I say "you" I mean "us" and "we" and (mostly) "me".