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EXAMPLE: Whenever people ask for advice you will find the Yahoo Community works overtime trying to solve other people's problems! This is true for everyday life as well.

2007-08-04 18:02:07 · 25 answers · asked by vsatsanga 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

25 answers

it feels good to give it and to get it...ha

2007-08-04 18:05:46 · answer #1 · answered by tony 2 · 1 1

I love giving advice and believe I'm quite good at doing so .. I wouldn't give advice if I didn't believe in the words of which I speak .. (If I didn't know what I was talking about)

I think when you see somebody going through or experiencing something you have, then you are able to speak and understand them. When people have problems that's what they need, understanding.

Sometimes you can be reading somebodies problem out of interest and by the time you've finished you have built an opinion and have things to say .. even though you may not have planned to answer that particular question.

Being able to help somebody and make a difference, make them smile or give them re-assurance and hope, is very rewarding. The feeling of doing good and improving somebodies life, even by a small margin - It's truly overwhelming!

Y!A is home to people of different generations, genders, sexualities, religions, races, nationalities .. When people ask a question for help or guidance you know that you are going to receive a mixed bag of opinions ..

Y!A is like a smaller version of our world, with less people but the same things. You have people arguing, people laughing,
people congratulating .. you have everything!

Thank You!
& Take Care!

2007-08-05 07:06:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Most people have innate desires to help others, stemming from their sense of empathy. At the same time, our animal nature makes us selfish. Giving advice creates the sense that we have done something to help others, while not requiring the expenditure of time/resources that providing physical aid might. By giving advice, we are able to assuage any sense that we are not being helpful, while at the same time avoiding actual involvement.

Giving advice may also work as a way to avoid the time and effort required in listening to a person, and shift guilt from the social milieu (ourselves included) onto the person who failed to take advice properly.

That said, solicited advice, given after time and consideration has been invested, can at times actually provide true help. It is precisely this helpful quality of good advice which makes it so that advice-giving can be considered "helpful" by those who use it to avoid further work.

2007-08-05 01:45:38 · answer #3 · answered by threskiorn 3 · 1 1

Overtime? Really?

So how come only one answered my question about computers.

We all live as a family of sorts- and giving advice when you have a grasp on the topic is normal behavior.

Now if only somepeople can have a grasp of windows vista...

2007-08-05 02:27:59 · answer #4 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0 1

The human spirit has a natural inborn desire to help others. You only have to read about some disaster or other to know just how heroic some people can be; even people like us!
It is this which sets us apart from the animal kingdom, plus manners.

2007-08-05 02:24:19 · answer #5 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 1 1

i can think of a few reasons ...

people love the idea that they are helping someone and that gives them a meaning that is for them too complicated to explain

people have to share their opinions

people truly and sincerely want to help others

or just the need to talk for the sake of talking

i am answering this question because i thought i my views would interest you. if not, then at least i get the 2points =D

2007-08-05 13:46:44 · answer #6 · answered by Smile =D 5 · 0 1

for some people giving advice and helping people really brings them a satifaction, like myself, I really love to answer people's question because it lets me know that I was able to help someone and that I'm not just a waste of space. It really just depends on the person, some people think others should just fingure out their own problems by themselves, but people like me take real joy and satisfaction in helping others solve their problems.

2007-08-05 01:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by Brookie Bombshell 2 · 2 1

In my opinion, it is human nature to want to feel the significance of one’s existence. That is why people want to give advice: They want to be assured that they play a part in others’ lives. One advantage of listening to advice is that you will be able to see both sides of the coin, which would reduce the chances of you being bias. However, don’t keep listening to others’ advice all the time! After all, you are living your life, not others’! Always trust yourself, and listen to yourself. =)

2007-08-05 07:03:36 · answer #8 · answered by FrenchLover 2 · 0 1

Superficially, we might see the possibilities of working toward a common good, the commonwealth of all. Deep down though, it might be that giving advice may offer a feeling of superiority.

But hey, you gain benefit of received advice, we feel good. Everyone benefits, yea?

2007-08-05 01:10:24 · answer #9 · answered by krneel128 3 · 1 1

Well, it gives them a sense of importance, gratification because people don't really gets asked but told in life. So I suppose, people feel great when they also....get an email saying:

"Your answer has been choosen!"

2007-08-05 03:08:46 · answer #10 · answered by Adam Taha 4 · 1 1

Because we can be so much wiser when we are not involved in the situation. We can see it with a clear and unbiased eye. When you are inside the problem, you only have one perspective on it, and may not see the other side.

2007-08-05 01:22:39 · answer #11 · answered by Princess Picalilly 4 · 2 1

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