Describe a Time when You Gave Advice to Others

Describe a time when you gave advice to others

• Who do you give advice to?
• What was the advice?
• Why do you give the advice?
• And how do you feel about the advice?

Sample 1 Describe a Time When You Gave Advice to Others

Well, in India, people always give each other free advice. People give advice even when nobody is asking. They do it to show care and guidance. Today, I would like to talk about a time when I gave advice to one of my cousins about his career choice. Last year she was working in an international company and doing quite well, so she was offered a level up to become a manager.

But she had also been looking for opportunities to study abroad and received an offer from a prestigious university around the same time she got the job offer. It was a scholarship covering all expenses, including tuition and accommodation. She was in dilemma, not knowing whether to stay and enjoy the excitement provided at work or pursue higher education.

When she asked for my advice, I suggested that if she wants to progress in this field, she has to possess excellent qualifications because it may help her climb the ladder of success. This promotion may look good now. Still, as far as I see, there’s little room left for development. She finally took my advice and is currently studying at one of the best universities.

Sample 2 Describe a Time When You Gave Advice to Others

There is no ambiguity in saying that it is a basic need to receive and give help or advice from others in their lives related to different fields such as business, studies, cooking, farming, and many more. Moreover, I also attained positive advice from my kith and kin and tutors related to academics, which proved fruitful for me.

However, today I would love to share the time when I advised my brother in 2015 related to open their clothes shop because he had a jack of all trades of stitching, and he stitched different pieces of clothes according to the demand of people at the shop of my uncle. Apart from that, I vividly remember my uncle Sulkn Singh gaining name and fame in the world due to the skill of my cousin’s brother and earning a chunk of money from customers.

Once a day, he discussed that problem with me. I suggested a newly opened shop near the locality. In the meantime, he told me he had less money to open a new shop. Interestingly, we found dogs with two tails. All in all, at that time, I advised him, and nowadays, he is well settled in our life, which fascinates me always related giving and accessing opinions of others.

Follow-Up Questions Describe a Time When You Gave Advice to Others

Question 1. What kind of advice do parents give to their children?

Answer 1:- There are several types of advice that parents never fail to give their children in all walks of life. Parents advise on the importance of education to shape the career of their children and make them successful. They also advise the children to play with their strengths and work on their weaknesses. They give sound advice when their children fail and motivate them to do better with a different approach. Parents have more experience and have seen the world with tainted glass, and they try to pass on their knowledge to the children in the form of guidance.

Answer 2:- From my perspective, in my nation,  all types of advice have been received and taken from adults, experts, friends, and family members related to everything and mostly in emergency conditions from neighbours, such as in the nighttime, some people confront difficulties related to health. For example, during COVID, 19 neighbours gave aid every time to patients in conventional ways.

Question 2. Giving and receiving advice is expected in your country.

Answer 1:- Giving and taking advice in my country may lead to various thoughts, such as giving unnecessary advice can display a person’s interference without any consent, so it gets in the negative limelight, whereas taking good advice can always be beneficial for the person who is receiving it. Taking bad advice can be harmful, so there should be filtration on the guidelines provided and accepted as it is a deciding factor whether it should be taken into consideration or not.

Answer 2:- Yes, it is common in my nation because, with the help of advice, the masses quickly tackle problems in their lives, such as students who lack experience in selecting a stream. They receive their near and dear opinions and choose without any problem.

Question 3. Why is receiving advice from professionals expensive?

Answer 1:- I believe advice from professionals is costly because they have received special training to become an expert in their field. For example, to be able to get psychological aid from psychotherapists, we must pay a fortune per hour as the psychotherapist has spent decades studying psychology to find the best solution for us.

Answer 2:- It is a contentious issue, but in my opinion, experts advised its expansion for various reasons, which I cannot explain in words. However, I tried: they spend a lot of money on their studies and pay workers like doctors and people in business. Whereas in the study field, teachers provide advice to learners without cost.

Question 4. How do experts give advice to others? (e.g. a doctor gives advice to patients)

Answer 1:- Doctors cannot easily give advice to someone who is suffering from illness without undergoing a medical examination. They cannot advise by just listening to the person’s complaint about his health. Doctors can only give some medical advice once they know the person’s health condition by running through some tests, and then it becomes suitable.

Answer 1:- Commonly, doctors always advise their patients on how to reduce weight or stress and how much they eat, so I think without doctors,   patients can not cure their health in efficient ways.

Question 5. What advice do parents give to teenagers about making friends?

Answer 1:- Parents are good advisors. They suggest to their children that they should socialize with people who can make them laugh and change their perspective. They teach their children that they should treat their friends with good faith and keep their promises. Overall, they advise that their children should keep company with true friends.

Answer 2:- Families play a crucial role in the lives of teenagers, and parents always suggest making their best friends who indulge in good activities. Smartphone.

Question 6. How do professionals receive advice?

Answer 1:- Well, I have to say this question is hard to answer because I’ve never experienced being a professional before, but I guess they will check out some books because books contain precious information and are accessible for anyone who can read and understand. Take me as an example, and whenever I need to find a solution to my life’s issue, I will pick up a book that relates to the current problem and read it carefully.

Question 7. Should children make decisions on their own?

Answer 1:- When kids are given room to make their own decisions, their brains learn how to make the choices, even the harder ones. Also, it helps them to reduce the stress of feeling helpless or dependent on someone else’s decision for them. I think children over 15 should be allowed to make decisions about their lives. Children who are allowed to make their own decisions will naturally develop a keen sense of responsibility.

Question 8. Whose advice is more helpful? Parents or friends’?

Answer 1:- I think it depends on the kind of advice that you need. Parents and grandparents probably have more life experience than a friend, and so you might get a wiser or more sensible answer from them. On the other hand, friends are less likely to become too worried if you go to them with a problem. For example, I probably wouldn’t want to burden my parents with a financial situation.

Question 9. Do parents in your country take decisions for their children?

Answer 1:- In India, Parents make important decisions in consent to their children’s opinions until they reach adulthood. But once they are grown up, parents give advice but leave their children alone to make important decisions on their own. If parents don’t allow their children to make important decisions, they will probably never learn how to take risks in life and live on their own. In fact, parents should always encourage their children to make decisions even if their children are reluctant to do so. After all, parents will never be around them forever to help their children out during difficult times.

Question 10. Do you think it is advisable to listen to others’ advice when making decisions?

Answer 1:- It is quite important to listen to other people’s experiences and guidance before making any decision, but listening only should never make any changes in the decision. I mean, it’s important to go through peoples’ experiences as it may help in making the perfect decision, but we cannot totally rely on it. Finally, we should be open to receiving advice from others when making decisions, even if they don’t serve our purposes in the present, since there is always a chance that they will benefit us in the future.

Question 11. Do you think in the future, people will get more advice from computers than humans?

Answer 1:- Yes, I suppose they can help us to make more logical decisions. What I mean is people are often influenced by their feelings, and sometimes emotion can cloud one’s judgment to make decisions. Nowadays, computers are all equipped with Artificial intelligence, so they are pretty smart and can give us plenty of choices for what to do in every aspect of life. If we ask a friend for some advice, oftentimes their advice is based on their personal experience, which is not totally suitable.

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