Share Your Experience Not Your Advice

People need your experience but don’t necessarily want your advice. If you want to be helpful and expand the conversation, share your experience and keep your advice to yourself.

What’s the difference between sharing ourexperience and our advice? Quite a lot.

Advice is directive – toward a solution. It tends to shut down discussion and force a judgement of your solution. Sharing your experience, without advice, can broaden a person’s critical thinking process.

The Problem With Advice

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