ON GIVING ADVICE
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ON GIVING ADVICE
We are genernally unwilling to recevie advice from other . We think that that the man who is giving us advice is insulting our understanding and treating us like children or idiots .We consider the advice that we are given for our welfare is actually a piece of rudeness . The person who advice us thinks that he is superior to us . The advice giver thinks that the receiver of advice defective either in conduct or understanding . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . !
There is nothing so difficult as making the giving of advice pleasant . Allthe writers of the olden days and the modern times try their level best to make their advice agreeable . Many writers use several ways to make their advice pleasant . Some give us their instruction in the best chosen words , other do so in sweet words of poetry , still other make use of proverbs to give their advice . . . !
Addison thinks that the best ways of giving advice is through a made -up story or fable . Giving advice by telling a fable is the best way of giving advice . By listening to advice , in a fable , no body feels insulted . It does not shock the receiver of advice . He does not feel insulted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . !
By . . . . !
"Ruchi Tiwari "!
- Writer
