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  • Team Aqua (GT 2024)
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    Has your life changed from a few simple words? "A piece of advice," an elder might say.

    Whenever you receive these, how do you take them? Sincerely, cautiously, nonchalantly? Do you even think something so simple can be life-changing? Any favourites? Maybe you remember at least a few memorable ones in particular.

    Of course, we all have our reasons for choosing which one to remember. Some gladly share their own, needed or not, usually from own experiences. A few inspiring people often drop gems here and there. You get a lot during graduation, too. Rarely, times of anxiety or negativity also earn you some. But really, what kind of situation calls for these? When do you decide to deem one useless?

    You can share a few if you want.
     
    When I was younger, I was ridiculously stubborn when it came to any form of advice. If someone advised me to do something, I'd normally dig my heels in and continue to do the 'something in question' my way, but even moreso. I'm still kinda stubborn, when I want to be, but I've gotten a lot better at accepting advice as I've gotten older. If I genuinely think my way is best, I probably will pay a cursory listen to the advice, but those times are slowly fading away. For the most part, especially if the advisor is someone who genuinely knows a lot about what he/she is advising in, I'll honestly try and utilise this newfound knowledge if I can. Advice for job interviews, for example, or filling out application forms were often very helpful in this regard.
     
    Outside of teachers giving me advice on schoolwork (which I always took willingly), I can't remember a single time I've ever really been given advice... because I've never really asked for it. I've always been pretty self-sufficient in my decision-making and I make it pretty clear offline that I prefer everybody mind their own business unless specifically asked.

    Since I can only speculate, I think that if I were to ask for advice, I'd be pretty good at taking it. But if somebody just wished to offer their observations on my business, I wouldn't do so well with it.
     
    Back when I was a youngster I'd take any rules set out for me and everyone else very seriously. For example one of the rules was that you weren't allowed to take things from other peoples tables, which is understandable.
    Like you'd expect there are the bratty kids who ignored these rules and went around stealing things. This use to frustrate me to the point where I'd end up screaming in tears at them to stop doing it and that it wasn't fair that he could get away with it whereas others couldn't.
    So something similar happened at some point and my mum grabbed me, slapped me to get me to shut up and said "life isn't fair David, get over it." and from that point onwards I just stopped caring so much about what the other bratty kids wanted to do.
    I don't know if it was the advice or the the slap that was paired with it that made it have such an effect but either way it helped a lot.

    To answer the other question though I'll usually take advice if it makes sense to me at the time.
     
    Depends on what type of advice it is.
    If it is professional, work advice, I will take it on and learn it if it is needed. However, if it is advice about my personal life, I will take it with a pinch of salt.​
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    It depends on the type of advice given to me. If the advice benefits me through the long term, I listen. If not, I just go my way.
     
    WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, CAPTAIN. GRAIIIIIN.

    But yeah, obviously I'll question any advice given to me but the majority of the time, it is for my own well being.
     
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