Honestly, I dislike people who offer me unsolicited advice and I've had a fair share of those kinds of people (nosy friends& pesky relatives) in my life . Nowadays I've learnt to flout these kinds of people, maybe even cut-off relationships if the behaviour persists and gets hard to manage. It’s really not worth getting into a squabble or trying to elucidate your point of view with these folks, because they tend to think that they are doing you a huge act of kindness by giving you their treasured advice.
Here’s
a couple responses you could give out to these niches of people:
“Thank you. I’ll give that some thought.”
“Thank you. That might work. Let me think about it.”
“Huh. I never would have thought of that.”
“Interesting. I’ll keep that in mind.”
All of these are nods for the suggestion, yet are completely non-committal. Teaching people to not advocate anything to you is imprudent; none of us has waylaid the market on wisdom and experience, and sometimes the best solutions come from sources you’d never expect.
Nothing
that anyone says ever has to be accepted in whole or in part until after it has
been tested against reality. The beauty of this simple system is that it’s is
impossible to be snubbed.
Oh, and if it isn’t any good GYAN I just file it in the waste paper bin. Once in a while, I perceptually raid that bin to try crackpot ideas when all else fails. In short, keep your mind and your ears open. It will pay off.
Only the people who pay my bills have a right to offer unsolicited gyaan. Beware of such gyaani schmucks and keep them at one hand distance.
Rab
Rakha!!!!!
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