What was the worst advice you ever gave?

Hi, the worse advice I ever gave was for someone to go for it. Go for it in the sense that they should betray their loved ones and do what it is that is in their heart. For that moment in time the person was truely euphoric and up for anything. But in the long run the person unfortunately became a rather miserable individual. I feel sorry for him, it was about his ex and his current girlfriend. But what was supposed to happen? I mean, if he was miserable with his current girlfriend and always thinking about his ex, why waste another moment and go for it? So going for his ex? I think it was still a good decision on his part, but still not he best advice I have ever given considering the amount of people who got hurt during the process.

hi laydee! i do understand when you see others in predicament because of your advice. it happened when i advised my cousin about adventure trips and camping. i suggested that jim corbett national park offers good camping,so u can have good fun for weekends. i never realised he would act upon my advice so religiously and convince all of his batchmates (batch of 30 students) for the trip.they all did this overnight without checking all the facts .booked a big bus and went straight away there to find out that those camps needed to be booked in advance.when they went for the jungle safari their vehicle broke down and they got stuck up in the mid of the jungle most of the time.so they were bit disappointed when they were back.and finally it traced out that it was me who had suggested the place.they had more share of misadventure(LOL)....

Way back, about 1966, a casual acquaintance related an idea he had for a new business. I told him it was a terrible idea and gave him a lot of reasons why it would never work. His crazy idea? Put gambling casinos on riverboats. I hope he paid no attention to me.

I think you should not worry too much about your judgement being 'poor'. There is no good OR bad. There is good AND bad all together. There are opportunities which we are using in life for getting knowledge. In order to know about something, usually we first experience the good face of that something. In order to know something ( not to know about, like in the previous case), meaning to achieve the full understanding of that 'something', we need to experience also the bad face of the coin. It is said that pain and suffering ( the bad face of the coin) is the most efficient tool to get full comprehension of a situation. The ultimate goal of our existence is to gather information, to get knowledge. So... I think your friend had an experience, which is exactly what life wants from us There was a lesson at the end of the experience. The point is not that you advised her to enter into a 'bad' experience. The point is IF she understood her life lesson, out of that.

I once suggested my brother to re-test the university.It is my fault.The way in life,everyone will make mistakes.

I once gave an advice that was not allowed by Mylot (read: violent) and I got blocked out of mylot since then. And i think every account that I had with the same email address gets blocked. I sort of pissed mylot of big time there. That was me not thinking.

Hi Laydee,don't blame yourself.You did give the good advice you though.You're not mean to hurt her.On the other hand,your friend is an adult too.I don't believe you're capable to change her mind if she decided to ignore that man. You're a good and kind woman.

Hi! this post is a very interesting post, i am a guidance counselor, we usually guide and help people with their problems but not advice because if you advice someone and something not so good happens it will be the fault of yours. In guidance and counseling advising is a big no - no, advising is almost like you are the one deciding for the life of that person, which is a really bad thing, the only thing that you should do is give some options, opinions, questions that you think is best for his problems that will enlighten him/her, you should let others decide for themselves not you decide for them because they have their own mind and body. I am sure even you, you do not want others to decide for you, you do not want others to make a decision for you that will make you in the wrong path of the world. That goes when giving a guidance to a friend or relative. And by the way if we people make/made decisions we should not regret it. Always remember! Decide for yourself not others to decide for you! So in the end if something goes wrong there will be no regrets and no blaming of others. Poor judgments and decisions makes things worst, you should not give advice specially when things are very complicated. I hope you already learned from your mistakes. I am not saying what you just did is a total mess but i just want you to be careful next time and learn how to help others with their problems in a proper way, helping is not bad it's a good practice of being a good person, but before helping, think, learn and understand first the nature of the problem and how you will throw the right and proper words to your friends, relatives and etc.