Well, do you? We may be asked for advice or give it unsolicited, but do you follow your own advice? It's much easier, at times, to hand it out as a neutral party coming in without emotions regulating our thoughts. So, do you follow your own advice or do you just hand it out without abiding by it yourself?
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Do You Follow Your Advice?
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Nebulous said:
Depends on what you consider a hypocrite to be. I think it also depends on the situation. For instance, love-life/romance advice. Sometimes it's asked for, sometimes it's unsolicited, but if you don't abide by the advice you give in your own relationship and expect other people to heed to your advice, then yeah, that's pretty hypocritical.
In terms of my example up there, I don't know if it's so much hypocritical as it is just encouraging words and still working on figuring out how not to worry and be anxious about stuff myself. In the end, we usually always end up being right, that things typically are okay and do work out, but who knows.
Dee said:
Yes I definitely do. I totally believe in my norms and traditions I make up myself.
Not following the advice they give to others doesn't necessarily mean the advice they give is wrong as it's easier to say what the truth is then to actually live it. This is why you may find that many don't do what they advise others to do but that doesn't mean most people give out bad advice just that not everyone lives the truth that they speak.
I'd say yeah I can easily give advice that I don't follow myself as it's easier to show the way without the pressing emotions of the moment pulling you in different directions. It really has no bearing on the character of the person rather the courage and will to do what is right in the moment where your advice you gave is now something you can actually follow yourself. It might make them a hypocrite but it doesn't make their advice necessarily wrong either even though it does offer you an easy excuse to ignore what could easily be sound logic.
I'd say yeah I can easily give advice that I don't follow myself as it's easier to show the way without the pressing emotions of the moment pulling you in different directions. It really has no bearing on the character of the person rather the courage and will to do what is right in the moment where your advice you gave is now something you can actually follow yourself. It might make them a hypocrite but it doesn't make their advice necessarily wrong either even though it does offer you an easy excuse to ignore what could easily be sound logic.
