Bettering yourself, part 10: following good advice

I have a theory that as much as people talk about what needs done, they don’t really do anything they don’t want to. Similarly, I don’t think people like to take advice because they’re incensed that they didn’t think of the solution first. They must not be perfect! Oh no. I do this a lot.

That goes back to the exceptionally yet necessarily arrogant wiring of our brains. I know one person who follows advice (it’s not me), and everyone else just follows by example: they see someone doing something they would like to do and they copy it. If someone’s doing something better than you, well, you so greatly observed what it was they did and copied it! So, everyone having different skillsets and all, if you think about it, you’re just as great as them! I’m kidding. Though you might be just as great as them if you take their advice, adopt the good practice, but certainly not if you don’t adopt it because you’re upset that you didn’t think of it first.

Advice is taken so infrequently that when I give advice and it’s taken, sometimes I think I must be filled with such exceptionally good advice that my advice is the only advice that gets followed, and have a tendency to see whoever took my advice as some sort of apprentice of mine, rather than someone who might impart equally good advice to me, just in a different situation. So if you take advice, great, but also  be aware of weirdos like me and make sure we don’t make you regret it ahaha.