Which one builds more character, taking advice or learning from mistakes?

i strongly believe it's more important to make mistakes than to take advice. i dont think anyone should give advice if they havent experienced the situation themselves. do you agree?Which one builds more character, taking advice or learning from mistakes?
While advice is great and can really help you succeed in life, learning from mistakes are the best lessons as they often are not forgotten. They both tend to go hand in hand and are both extremely valuable. I myself prefer learning from mistakes as I feel that you truly learn and understand something as opposed to just going by someones word.Which one builds more character, taking advice or learning from mistakes?
well if you learn how to listen to advise and mistakes that you make in your life might be minimized. But knowing when to listen to yourself and when to listen to other people's advise is the most character building of all, since this enables you to be your own person.
Mistakes are how we become who we are. Advice is woulda, coulda, shoulda from some one who wishes...
If a person gives you advice, it must mean that they care for you. Even without the experience, it's just an opinion. You don't HAVE to listen to what they say. Sometimes it's good to learn from your own mistakes because you'll know how it feels to mess up and REMEMBER that part of your life.
Making mistakes definitely builds more character. Unless of course one does not learn from said mistakes. This only causes pain and more mistakes.
I agree with you completely. Even your mistakes are all part of your very own life experience. No one should take that away from you.


It ican be annoying to have all these advice from people who begin their sentences with ';You should....';
I agree, though sometimes advice helps avoid the pain of mistakes.
I believe learning from mistakes builds more character because it is where you start for a new begininb in developing the character. All the mistakes in life serves as a building blocks of your own character. You will have already an image mirror of all the mistakes or errors in life that guides you in dealing with a better life. All ot these are now your shining armor within you.





For those who haven't experienced the situation by themselves, although many are good advicers to others but when the situation calls for it, they couldn't apply it to themselves and this for me is a big question up to now. How come they are so good in giving advices but if they are into the situation they could hardly adopt their advices to their own self.





I believe it is more reliable if one has undergone the situation and later give advice to others because there is a foundation of experience in life which you could share and give advice to others. This is more realistic than being hypothetical.
Taking unsolicited advice is always bad. Learning from mistakes definitely builds character. Learning from other peoples mistakes can make life somewhat easier too.
I disagree... but I could be mistaken.
I think making your own mistakes builds more character, while taking someones advice (if good) shows maturity.
Yes, but people can't help but warn you if they made the mistake themselves.





Although, the best way to learn and build more character is learning from mistakes. Although, if you are smart enough you will listen to that person i.e. parents, teacher, friend, etc. and stay away from whatever hurt them in the past.
A fool learns from his own mistakes.





A wise man learns from the mistakes of fools.





-Proverbs
The best if to learn from mistakes then give advice to others to avoid the mistake.
You must have charachter to start with to be humble enough to take advice.





But taking advice may turn out to be a mistake. Learning from good advice, that is, from putting that advice into practice and also from appreciating that taking advice can be good AND from mistakes, either of having taken advice which turned out to be wrong or of not taking advice at all 'builds up' the stock, the reservoir of your experiences which you can refer to later, even to decide whether to take advice or not.





It has nothing to do with charachter; charachter is what you are; your inclination to take or not to take advice is your charachter. It will be difficult - it can be done, but difficult - to get yourself to take advice, even more difficult to ask for it, if it is not part of your charachter, in your nature, to do so.





Not all of us are ready or able to take advice, but all of us make mistakes. I hope this answer isn't one; if it is, I am ready to take advice.
Not true!





For example:





If someone advises you not to drive high speeds on a steep mountain top with plenty of curves...(even though they have never done it) it would probably behoove you to listen to them as they have driven enough to know height and velocity is a dangerous cocktail!
I agree with you... Even if you dont learn from your own, you can also learn from other people's mistakes...





And it is so much like the Monkey See Monkey Do... thing except backwards... monkey sees someone doing something stupid, so monkey remembers not to do that same thing...
I strongly agree that learning from mistakes gives you more knowledge, makes you more skillful, therefor builds more character....whereas taking advice may also lead to making a mistake and learning from it
Sometimes life itself can be a good teacher. Even though I am a Christian, I have always thought that sometimes experience is a good teacher, and whether you suceed, or fail, it does help you to mature.


On the otherhand some advice is just too good to ignore!


Either way you mature on certain aspects.


It's all part of growing. And until the day we die, we continue to learn every single day. It is part of this thing called life.
I think learning from mistakes builds more character.
Taking advice. Anyone can make a mistake. You can trip over your shoelace and cut your head open. But it is much harder to listen to someone explain to you why you should tie your shoes. Very few people in this world can actually take advice. Pax- C
I agree with you to a certain degree. But where it comes to life threatening things like drinking and driving or drugs I think its best to take other people's past mistakes and not go down that path.


But, I don't think you can truly appreciate a situation until you've experience failure.
Always listen to advise. but make the best choice for you.