Advice

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Claim

Giving and getting advices is a powerful tool for growth and well-being. Not only that we are able to escape our Mental Glasses by receiving advices and being exposed to other perspectives, we are also likely to follow through with our beliefs and aspirations if we say them as advices for others.

Explanation

This is because we want to maintain Actions and physical states unconsciously shape our beliefs between what we say and what we do. Therefore advices, although meant to help someone else, are a form of Peer support enables collaborative growth through shared feedback and mutual learning for ourselves as well.

Good advices are ones that are filled with Mindsight is awareness of mental states in self and others, that we give the advice they need, and not the one we want to give. Often good advice requires Speaking truth about yourself and others enables authentic action, to say what needs to be said even if it is unpleasant.

Why it matters

However, one must be careful as to how they give advice, because advices can also hurt our Confidence if it sounds forceful, mandatory, or belittling. Advice should come from a place of Accepting others feelings and perspectives without dismissal, of connecting with how they feel and who they are, instead of trying to cancel them.

Examples

For example, if someone asks me for an advice on how to be more healthy, if I recommend him to do more physical activity, I will also be more likely to do more workouts myself.

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