Advices and Of Soliciting Them

I’ve read somewhere that advice not asked is advice not needed. In other words, there are nagging and preaching words. I try as far and as often as possible to avoid giving them. Luckily my friends quite often asked me about my opinions and suggestions on certain topics such as techs stuff, so I am not deprived of not being able to give advice.

Because we as humans always want to say something, wanting for people to listen to whatever we say and being regarded as important. So sometimes we go out of our way to ‘give advice’ to people around us.

Recently however I was asked by an ex-boss to give a short talk to his staffs, and tell them about my experience so they might be able to relate. I then went on to describe briefly about my life and what I have done. The gist is simple, in which you have to have a reason in doing something so that you can persevere. The audience are mostly younger than me (I assume) so I meant to tell things that I believe I should have done. But in doing so, and while giving the talk, I self consciously realize that I sound like preaching and nagging to them. I do not personally know any of them, so I can’t confirm my suspicions but I still believe there’s an advice in giving advice, especially the listeners are sceptics.

In some sense, writing this blog is a form of plauding my opinion and thoughts to the world, giving unsolicited advice to the world wide web. But then again, people can totally skip my rants and posts and not be bothered to read. They have a choice.

And if you’ve chosen to read until here and still trying to figure out my point, apologies. I am also unclear and just thought that writing these down would clear my mind.