Don't take advice from unhappy people

[Maru]

On 21-12-2022 at 6:55 PM, integral said:

2 can play at that game. ?

I don't take advice about weight loss from skinny people with good genetics.

I don't take advice about money from rich people who inherited there fortune.

I don't take advice from happy people who had fantastic childhoods. 

 

Reading this made me giggle. Was this true happiness? or was it the junky kind?

[Razard86]

On 12/21/2022 at 11:17 AM, LastThursday said:

You're right in that it's definitely a good rule of thumb that a person is "congruent" when dishing out advice. How can an unhappy person truly give good advice on being happy?

On the other hand. Even hypocrites can give good advice. I'd say it's incumbent on you to have good filters when being given advice and you can only do that by experience and prior knowledge. It's often better to listen to the message than the messenger. After all, maybe an unhappy person has worked on and studied happiness more deeply than a happy person. From what I can tell Eckhart Tolle was a deeply unhappy person before his enlightenment and teaching.

I'm glad you understand this, I really get tired of people looking at the messenger to verify the message its why successful people can continually brainwash people because of the laziness of this standard. You look at the message ALONE, in all its entirety. I'm not saying you cannot think about the messenger, but eventually you have to get beyond them otherwise you are handing your authority away. 

The message is the only thing that matters at the end of the day, not the messenger. In fact ironically obese people are actually the BEST messengers for how to lose weight, just do THE OPPOSITE!!! LOL.