OT: What is the Best Advice You've Ever Received?
I was thinking about this today, as it's an amazingly profound question, and wanted to poll the collective sage wisdom of this community. What is the greatest piece of advice you have been given? Is it personal or professional? How has it improved your state of being?
Are you able to narrow it down to one? If not, what are some things that you've been told that have stuck with you or made an impact?
For me, I have two that I think about often:
1) "Every man will lose a battle in his life, but what's important is that he doesn't lose himself during it
2) "Be so good they can't ignore you"
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I used to be, until I realized that I was gripping the club wrong.
NTTAWWT
use dental floss and arch supports
That one has helped me a lot.
I wish I had learned that many years earlier.
Success is a combination of hard work and good decisions.
Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never strive to do less. something liek that
Eat the eucalyptus, cause nobody else wants it. Also, enjoy the clap. - Dad
After embarking on a life-altering decision, like a job change or a move, don't evaluate it every day. There are too many ups and downs on a daily basis. Experience it fully and completely without judgment for at least six months, then take a step back and have a look.
Become a Michigan fan
My Uncle said "Aint gone be boy. Aint nothing. Aint gonna. Be a g'boy and go fetch a (trails off)" I think he was drunk.
April 30th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
You are not a lottery ticket.
Find something you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
"Don't cross the streams" Dr. Egon Spengler
"If the only positive quality is that she has a pool, then you should probably dump her" - My future wife in college telling my to dump my girlfriend (at the time).
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shave around your anus. Its cleaner. Great advice from my fellow Koala Steve. RIP.
"If you are going to be late you better bring donuts... if you are supposed to bring the donuts you better not be late."
Nephew?
So listen twice as much as you talk.
You can be quiet and let people think you are an idiot or talk and let them know it.
Someone once told me, "if the game is on the line and time has expired, pitch it to Breaston". I shoulda listened, it really was great advice.
A lot of great ones have already been covered so I'll go with the two my friend's grandpa told me in college:
1. Whatever you make, save/invest 50% of it and spend the rest.
2. If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
EDIT: 3. If you're the smartest of all your friends...find new friends.
2 It's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep.
1rule at work when you F up is find someone else to blame.
Rule # 2 find someone else to blame .
And if that does not work, FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME!
April 30th, 2015 at 10:20 PM ^
But one I should abide by more is smart leaders keep their mouth shut and listen to a variety of inputs, perspectives, and people and then make a decision that isn't blinded by self arrogance and your own inherent stupidity.
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My counselor told me to apply to the likes of NC State, Florida, and Clemson, and tried to steer me away from any upper tier schools.
I ignored him and applied to MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Michigan, and GT instead. Got into all but MIT (deferred and ultimately rejected). Chose Michigan and the rest is history.
this must be a counselor thing...always poo-whoing student's desires...projecting their failures onto the young people asking them for 'guidance'.
"Do you really want to go to Dartmouth, Duke or MIT? If you liked Michigan the best, go there and don't look back."
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a picky eater. They have been spoiled.
"When you go to college, spend half your time having a great time and half you time studying something that pays well"
I may have ended up at like 75/25 but you know whatever.
My mom never gave the old "do what you love" or "go find yourself". Working class hero who got the last of her 4 to be the first one in the family in college.
If you don't want to feel bad on the Fourth, then don't drink a fifth on the third...
Because the first sentence is always the hardest. I got that advice from Charles Baxter (former UM professor). "Quid pro quo" and "scratch your itch" are also two great pieces of advice I received from John Rubadeau at Michigan.
Grandpa- "Keep your ears open and your mouth shut, the idiots will weed themselves out."
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I worked in a shoe store during senior year of HS in 1970-71, and one of the long-time employees was a kindly older gentlemen named Art. My last day of work there was in the spring of '71, and Art took me down to the local Sander's to buy me a sundae and give me some advice. I figured that he was gonna poke me in the ribs and tell me to always wear a rubber and never let the hooker pour your drink, but instead he starts telling me about how the price of gold was soon going to be allowed to float from the $35/oz it had been for years, and that he would advise any young man in my situation to buy as much gold as I possibly could while it was still $35 because before long it was going to go all the way to $200/oz.
I listened to his spiel and nodded politely at all the right moments, and shook his hand as he wished me good luck at U-M. I didn't have any extra money lying around to buy gold, and even if I did that sort of financial speculation was just something alien to my family.
Art was right; a decade later it was $590/oz, and today it's over $1000. That would have been a nice little investment.
That's a CAGR of roughly 8.6%. For comparison, the S&P 500 has a CAGR of roughly 10.6% over the same period.
Yes but the point is you would have a pile of gold at the end of the "same period" versus a ledger entry in a server somewhere.
One of the worst things you can do is set your goals too low and achieve them.
John Beilein to Austin Hatch
https://twitter.com/austinhatch30/status/375788419873374209
Be joyful always. Pray continually. Give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
I Thess 5:16-18
You can't do everything on your own.
My wife
Calm down. It's just a game. (on my rage fits after Michigan lost at anything)
My wife