good advice.

The best advice I think I have ever received, which I am not passing to you as advice, but rather as a story; was this: never take advice from anyone who gives it to you without being asked first, in fact, generally avoid people who are prone to that kind of behavior. People like that have something they are trying to prove; not to you, but only to themselves. This was also not offered to me as advice, but only as the story that I am now relaying to you. I am only left to wonder how far in the past it was that one clever being asked another, "What should I do if I am offered advice?"