Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Advice?

[Lily]

Do you take other people's advice or do you keep your blinkers on and do your own thing.

What do you do when you know that people are giving you good advice based on being external to the problem/situation?

Even when you know they are probably right do you just ignore them anyway?

I guess this relates to all areas of life from work, bike maintenance, relationships, family etc

[disco stu]

Originally posted by Lily
Do you take other people's advice or do you keep your blinkers on and do your own thing.

What do you do when you know that people are giving you good advice based on being external to the problem/situation?

Even when you know they are probably right do you just ignore them anyway?

I guess this relates to all areas of life from work, bike maintenance, relationships, family etc

Advice taken:i am going to buy a ducati darling,better join the AA then.
Advice not taken:748 ticking over in the garage bike stops,fuse under seat blown,replace fuse bike ok,mates don't you think you should get a sparky to look at that,no way it's all right now.Off to the bmf meet at kelso,bike breaks down in ponteland,AA man arrives fixes bike oh the smug looks on there faces.Advice taken you want to marry that lass son,listen to her she will keep you right,disco stu.

[ath748]

[Mark]

Listen to advice, but if i hate i don't follow it!

[yeti]

Listen to advice, decide yourself if it's good advice. If necessary ask someone else if they think it's good advice. After all that do what your heart and head told you to do in the first place!

[The sermon for today was read by the not very reverand Yeti]

[misterpink]

easy...follow these steps
1. listen to advice
2. does advice involve a) having a great time and having loads of fun OR b) being a martyr/being teetotal/abstaining from sex/not riding bikes/indulging in food/carrying out dangerous pasttimes?
3. if a) - take advice; if b) ignore
4. always be kind to others.

Hope this is good advice??????????

[dickieducati]

Originally posted by misterpink
easy...follow these steps
1. listen to advice
2. does advice involve a) having a great time and having loads of fun OR b) being a martyr/being teetotal/abstaining from sex/not riding bikes/indulging in food/carrying out dangerous pasttimes?
3. if a) - take advice; if b) ignore
4. always be kind to others.

Hope this is good advice??????????

very wise words

[TP]

Depends on the situation Lily. If I ask for it and I respect the person I'm asking it from then it becomes a 'factor'. All factors get weighed up from there and a 'decision' is reached. A 'decision' could well be wrong but at the end of the day you have to make your own. Even if it goes against advice from people you respect. I've done this before and sometimes I'm right, sometimes I should have followed the advice. For example, my Troop Commander told me I'd never get a decent job in IT when I left the Army as an electronics technician hiding in IT. I did respect him and he believed it to be true.

If it is given without being asked for, from a person I respect, then it has a high chance of being followed. From a person I don't respect then it has SFA chance of being followed (unless I consider it to be good advice in which case I'll try my best to make sure they don't know I followed it ). If it comes from a stranger then it depends on the advice - whether I think it's good or not etc.

Does that make sense?

[misterpink]

i am sure we can all think of lots more things to go in category b) ??????

and i meant NOT indulging in food and dangerous pasttimes........though maybe not at the same time........Hmmmm ...better stop now!

[Lily]

hmmmm

I think i vary. In some areas I do listen and certainly try to take advice as I don't know diddly squat. At other times, no matter how much I respect the person, how much experience they have, how sensible the advice is and how many different people give the same advice if I don't want it to be right I just ignore it anyway!!!

I think I may have just spotted my major downfall in life...lol