What is the best advice you have ever gotten?

[MrsK]

Regarding medicine? Regarding marriage?
Regarding your career?
Regarding anything?

[ballibeg]

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and confirm it.

[Ladybug]

Medicine: Don't loose yourself. Maintain you're own interests and needs. Fight for them.
Marriage: Put your marriage before your kids.
Parenting: Your kids are not an extension of yourself. They are own their own journey, and they've invited you along for the ride.

[MrsK]

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and confirm it.

LOL

My grandfather's advise on dating: "Keep your mouth shut and your legs crossed and when in doubt say 'no'." Good advise in so many situations. Actually, the best advise from my grandfather was to never miss out on trying something new just because you are afraid.

[Vishenka69]

On marriage, "all men have their faults, look for the ones you can live with. "

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[WolfpackWife]

For medicine? TBD

For marriage? "You can be right or you can be happy, but you usually can't be both." Funny, and applicable sometimes. But really I think the best advice I've gotten so far (not that I've learned how to abide by it yet) is "most things just aren't worth the fight. Really pick your battles, most of it isn't worth it."

[moonlight]

Marriage: BOTH husband and wife think of the other person before they think of themselves each day. If we BOTH do that, then we'll BOTH be happy.

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Actually, the best advise from my grandfather was to never miss out on trying something new just because you are afraid.

YOLO? He was a trendsetter!

[MrsK]

YOLO? He was a trendsetter!

He went white water river rafting in Alaska for the first time when he was nearly 90. He was wonderful.

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[corn poffi]

Hmmm my life is a hot mess at the moment, so I'm not sure whether I've never gotten good advice, or I've gotten good advice and ignored it...

My favorite advice is, "The world is full of cactus, but you don't have to sit on it". Aka make the choice to be happy...it's easier said than done though!

[rufflesanddots]

Medicine: Just the stuff I read from you ladies. T-2 month until M1 starts.

Marriage: "You must remain committed to the institution of marriage because there are days attraction alone will not be enough to keep you in the same room as that person."

Kids: "There is never a good time."

[GrayMatterWife]

Regarding medicine? Regarding marriage?
Regarding your career?
Regarding anything?

As to all of them: It's not always all about you all the time.

It hurt to hear it, but then. sixteen-year-olds take everything personally (hence, the advice).

[L.Jane]

Best advice I was ever given? "move lunch tables"

I think I have told this story on here before, so if you have already heard it, ignore me, but when I was in the 7th grade I was severely unhappy and didn't really have any friends. I had had a core group of friends who had just grown apart as we went through middle school. I was telling this to an acquaintance of mine and he says to me, so move lunch tables. I was freaked out to do this, and while the girls I was sitting with at lunch did get annoyed with me, and half the table I moved to were not pleased I moved there, I made a group of friends that I would be tight with for the next two years, and a girl who would be my best friend up until college. So short answer long, whenever I think I am stuck I remind myself to "move lunch tables" and not be scared to put myself out there and try something new.

[Pollyanna]

Let's see, some of my favs:

"You aren't ever entitled to anything"

"Act your way into a new way of thinking, never try to think your way into a new way of acting".

And one of my fav stories my mom tells is when she and my dad first got married and he bought her some jewelry that she didn't like. She went to take it back and was kind of complaining to the sales woman who calmly smiled at her and said, "oh that's okay honey, his next wife will love them". Mom then promptly realized and appreciated the thought behind the gift, grabbed her jewelry back and went home.