What is the single best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

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My therapist told me “You should never think. 😄 You already think a lot. It’s bad for you to think. Just get busy everytime you feel like thinking of something that worries you.”

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

The thing about thinking is depending on how deep you think you can dissect each word and feel it in that moment as you read it or hear or even imagine it im sure people have given me great advice I don't really remember anything offhand

And some of the best advice has come from me just meditating I forget exactly what I was thinking when I heard this

Time is Time
That has no Time

But in that moment to me it was amazing because you could think about that in so many different ways and the other one was

When we are born all the answers are within us open the doors and it will come to you
We are all given the same Gift that Gift is choice
We choose who we want to be by the things we say and do be so be authentic and create become the best you can be

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

One guy told me "you'll always loose money chasing woman, but you'll never loose woman chasing money" guys marriage was a bit of a wreck, but he had everything else you could possibly want. 😂

Then someone told my mom's boyfriend "you need to start letting life teach you" which I always try to apply that to myself. It's a great phrase to repeat to yourself once in a while.

A really accomplished guy said "nobody cares about what you DID, they don't know if you're exaggerating, lying, even a college degree expires after enough time. People want to know what are you DOING" That one hurt at the time.

Unycorn · Accepted Answer

Oh an advice given for German men in the movie

Keinohrhasen

With Til Schweiger.

How to satisfy a woman XD

Funny and a part of truth... I will look if I find it on YouTube. You only have to translate the Secret.

Chloe_Jones · Accepted Answer

Best advice could also be worst advice as I've always been told to be myself and not worry about what anyone else thinks

Love Doctor Brad · Accepted Answer

My aim here on GAG is to untangle hearts and minds… and maybe flirt a little while doing it 😉

Best advice I ever got: “Pay attention to how you feel around someone, not what they say.”

Helped me spot red flags, lovebombing, and fake charm fast. Your therapist’s tip is solid too, especially if you tend to spiral instead of solve.

AviatorTom · Answer

My father gave me this advice... If you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything.

AngryCarl3 · Answer

I admiited to my boss I was having a bad day. He said "Maybe instead of having good and bad days you should just have days. Because life's a bitch and then you die."

That makes more sense to me now than it did at the time. He was one of my better bosses, we met up again years later and he bought me a coffee.

SAMI_DABBAB · Answer

I have a few:

- Showing up puts you above everyone who quits (carried me through university)

- ego is the graveyard of greats (mom said this to 17 year old me and it changed me)

- respect your plans (this was literally this year when I asked for advice on being disciplined)

- never stop learning (a German professor in one of my final semesters on a random elective course)

MidnightRivers · Answer

"If you don't want to do it, it means you SHOULD do it" - I do partly live by this 'code' now haha

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Your therapist told, you “You should never overthink." ;-)

For me, maybe my first IT project leader who explained to me, that one finished project is better than three started, but unfinished ones.

Beckybooboo · Answer

It's okay to fail, as long as you know you tried your hardest.

Bárbara1402 · Answer

This advice is better in my language but “the opinions are like the butts. Everyone has one but that doesn’t mean that you have to give it”

OneViewpoint · Answer

A 75% solution is usually better than no solution. Make a decision and move on to the next thing. Don't look back.

MrChinaski · Answer

A friend once told me 'You can never go back'.  My father taught me 'It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude'. That would be my all time top two.

Cyfris · Answer

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see and do your own reasearch and come to your own conclusions.

Twodogs0525 · Answer

Liquor, then beer, never fear. Beer, then liquor, never sicker.

Jersey2 · Answer

“Never be afraid of looking a problem in the eyes”. I don’t remember who gave me the advice. I thought perhaps that it was a Ronald Regan quote but it is not.

mrkdvsn · Answer

It would probably be my step father strongly recommending that I go into the military (at 20) rather than taking an electronics course at a vocational school, and then trying to find a job in that career field

Spencer10 · Answer

Learn from the past but do not obsess about it. Its a waste of energy.

Anonymous · Answer

Life isn't fair 😉🌀😅 But then what awaits us all, hopefully I'm someday rewarded whenever I'm in the next life ☁️ 🌨️ someday some sun-shiny day ©️ 🎶🎶🎵

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

The best advice i got was from my mom she told me whatever I start I have to finsh

msc545 · Answer

I think you need a new therapist. You know an educated qualified one.

zagor · Answer

"Don't fuck up". Unfortunately I ignored it on multiple occasions.

Anonymous · Answer

I can't think of anything that I could actually use in this current life.

ElenaSeluna · Answer

Don’t be naive about anything

White_Widow · Answer

Be brutally honest with yourself

exitseven · Answer

My father always told me to "Get it in writing."

Alex-Snow · Answer

Listen more and talk less

LC75LC71 · Answer

Don't ever lose your sense of humor.

Anonymous · Answer

They meant “Don’t overthink things.”

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