The Best Advice Ever
I recently read an article about the worst writer in the world, it explained how the worst writer is the one that gives up on writing, the one that does not have the fight in him/her to overcome mental obstacles of laziness or boredom or so-called writers-block. Producing content will eventually result in producing powerful, quality, viral content. Practice makes perfect and writing can only come from the mental exercise of overcoming the mental wall of the blank page. Just like a marathon starts with one kilometer, an article and a book start one word at a time.
That article made me think about the blog content and how it is divided in 2 main themes: technology related articles and personal life experience story-telling blogging. It has been a recently tech-filled news time these last weeks but I wanted to take some time to get back into the personal side and to tell you guys that The Best Advice Ever does not exist. I should explain:
Time will tell. Happiness is but the difference between what you expect and what you get out of something. Live everyday as if it was the last. Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself… MILLIONS of different advices have all been heard throughout our life and the older we get, the more we hear. However, we only truly listen to the ones that we want and need. Specially in times of need, in times where people prove they are in your life for the good and the bad equally, you find out everyone feels like a life expert, a life coach or a life-ologist of sorts...
The best advice does not exist because there isn't One Advice to Rule Them All (I really hope you got that reference). I you don't go through life without the right advice and to get the best advice, you need the best people. You have to understand that everyone around you has their own troubles to carry, and since it is their problem to carry that, YOURS ARE NOT MINE.
Now, let's be clear, these "best people" aren't the kind of people that will help you with your problem. If they truly are the best they will:
- Only advice you when they can: when they know their opinion and point of view can help improve the situation you are in without imposing things. That means when they don't know what to do in your position they will also tell you truthfully that they don't know what to do.
- Leave you to solve your issues: life is such a good teacher that when you don't learn the lesson it will repeat it to you in as many different ways as necessary.
My grandma was one of the wisest people I have ever met, and she always told me "the best advice is the one you actually LISTEN TO". I just wanted to give you guys that small advice and hopefully you now understand why the BEST does not apply to advice, it applies to people.
Think about it this way: when you're sitting with your daughter and she starts to ask questions and needs advice because life starts slowly but surely "roughing her up", and you smile at her and tell her what you think she needs to hear without giving her too much, so that she learns the important lessons on her own and you see her mature to become all she wants to be and then some... The words of advice you will tell her are your version of words someone told you:
Because good advice you hear
GREAT advice, you pass on.
