Icebreaker: What’s the Best Piece of Advice You’ve Ever Been Given?

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76 Fun Icebreaker Questions

Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?

It’s either “wear your seatbelt” (which has saved my life a couple of times) or “don’t try to beat the stock market, settle for a tie by buying Index Funds”.

Also, “don’t try to have the last sign on the moon, you’ll only die tired”.

17 Comments

  1. Eff em all.

    Also “Always tell her she’s beautiful, especially if she isn’t.” RA Heinlein
    Best advice I’ve ever taken.
    I don’t have time to list all the good advice I haven’t taken

  2. “You won’t like the Army,” my dad.

    (Heeding the advice wasn’t specified; later I got my dad to laugh out loud by asking for his advice and saying (when he said I didn’t have to ask permission —I was grown [which was nice to hear]) “Yeah, but the last I didn’t listen to you I wound up in the Army.”)

    Yes, he had served.

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