do you take your own advice

[Tom]

I find it easy to give advice, yet find it hard to take it. Like, I tell myself things and "okay I'm going to do this, I'll do that, I should not do that", etc., yet I never actually do it. I perhaps do it for a day, but then after I've slept, I just stop. I don't know why.

[FlyingJesus]

But isn't that what advice is? You telling people what you think is the best solution? If I give advice, I'd put myself in that situation and tell them what I'd do.

Nope I think about what would best benefit them not just go by what I'd do in the situation - otherwise I'd usually be telling people to lie and weasel their way out of stuff