“Don’t Compare Your Behind-The-Scenes With Everyone Else’s Highlight Reel” And 15 Other Peieces Of Advice That Changed People’s Lives

We all could do with some advice from time to time. Well, Redditor u/oliviiaaloveee recently asked r/AskReddit, “What’s the most unexpected piece of advice that actually changed your life?” So we thought we’d share some of the best ones.

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“I was an apprentice and couldn’t do heaps of things and was upset. The head baker came over and said ‘I have failed more times than you have tried’ never forgot that.”

–u/Altruistic_Candle254

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“‘We have a disease that convinces us we don’t have a disease.’ (I’m an addict with 12 years sobriety)”

–u/supergooduser

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“‘Half of solving a problem is defining the question.’ Made it so every time I ran into a complicated problem, I would stand back and go ‘what am I really trying to do here’. Usually, reordered my thoughts.”

–u/ruralmutant

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“Weirdly enough in my young 20s I was hellbent on getting lots of tattoos and I ended up chatting with a woman in her 60s who had TONS of tattoos. She told me, ‘don’t rush into getting too many too quickly. You’ve got a lot of life left and you’re going to want to have room to commemorate some of your experiences.’ It stuck with me so much more than the typical elder, ‘you’re gonna ruin your skin’ nonsense and I took her advice. I’m glad I still have room to commemorate.”

–u/Ritualsofrae

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“Working in construction, and growing up on a farm this always runs through my mind… ‘Don’t stick your fingers anywhere you wouldn’t stick your dick’. It’s made me take a step back and really evaluate the danger of any given situation.”

–u/Toyhota

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“‘It’s better to let them go on a good day than a bad one’ – The owner of a horse rescue I volunteer at said this to me when we had to put down the sweetest mare ever. Rest in peace Lady.”

–u/TallyTruthz

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“Remember, sometimes the best solution is to take a deep breath and step back from the problem. Perspective is often found just beyond the haze of stress and urgency.”

–u/VioletSienna

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“We cause ourselves the most stress. What happens accounts for ten percent, how you react to it, ninety.”

–u/usernamenottakenwooh

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“‘Put on your own oxygen mask first before helping others’. Changed my perspective about how to prioritise in many situations.”

–u/4tehlulz

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“Don’t compare your behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

–u/RelevantNostalgia

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“Don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.”

–u/c2h5oh_yes

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“‘Save your money, because one day you are going to need your money to save you’. Absolute BEST advice I ever got.”

–u/TechPBMike

Editor’s note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity. 

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