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Infants to young children and finally till adulthood, we gain more advises than giving advises. Whether from people that lend their hands for us in aspect of IQ or EQ, we are fortunate. It's a bless as we snatch these opportunities to develop as humans.
However, have you ever wonder what's on the other side of giving advises?
This impromptu question can probably be an ease to be answered by fellow teachers and leaders in profession. However, do people including them ever realize that the moment we start to give advises through our positive intention we may start to open the downfall spiral for ourselves if we're not aware of what is the pros & cons of doing so. Pat on the back if you understood what i meant, giving advises can be a fun thing to do and could be addictive once you start doing so. We start to provide all the knowledge we learned to those who seek from us or even volunteer to provide the knowledge ourselves. Finally a big smile on our face. Yeah, it's nice to even begin with the feeling we experience but is it all to consider?
Well, do you ever consider that your advises may stagnate your own growth? At this point, some may realize " Oh yea... I am knowledgeable to provide the advises and nothing is wrong....", but this could probably be the roadblock for us to step toward the next step of improving ourselves. Instead of being full of ourselves that we're well informed and knowledgeable to solves any problem, please consider about it. If this is the mindset then mostly likely you surely will meet an issue which you could not solve due to your stupid action of ending your own growth.
Ending it with this quote - " Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi
