Let's talk about "friendly advice." Can advice truly be friendly? When people advise you about how you run your business, do they realize that it is a complex world they are entering? If you take someone's advice about your business and lose money, can you bill them? Oh lord, let me neither solicit nor proffer advice. Let the advice be locked down, in a world from which it will never be released.
Free advice and worth every penny... Apparently advice is worth 2 cents. That's how it is always described. Would it be appropriate to hand someone 2 cents when they give you advice and thank them kindly?
blech.
Once I decided to be confrontational about this issue. I sat a friend down who was generously offering unsolicited advice on personal issues and I said, "wow, that's so kind of you to think of my life and offer advice. I always thought it would be rude to do that, but since you are so generous, I have had a few thoughts on your behavior and I would love to have a dialogue. Shall we discuss?" --- She never tried it again...
too mean? maybe.
Free advice and worth every penny... Apparently advice is worth 2 cents. That's how it is always described. Would it be appropriate to hand someone 2 cents when they give you advice and thank them kindly?
blech.
Once I decided to be confrontational about this issue. I sat a friend down who was generously offering unsolicited advice on personal issues and I said, "wow, that's so kind of you to think of my life and offer advice. I always thought it would be rude to do that, but since you are so generous, I have had a few thoughts on your behavior and I would love to have a dialogue. Shall we discuss?" --- She never tried it again...
too mean? maybe.
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Too mean?... NO!
I sound like a 12 year old going through puberty!