2. What is some of the best advice you have received?

Some good advice I recently got from a friend was, "Evaluating ideas is wisdom, but evaluating people is unhealthy, and leads only to arrogance and shame." So, when evaluating people is happening, someone ends up thinking both that they are a greater person (arrogance) and that the other person is a lesser person (shame). This leads to nothing beneficial. But evaluating ideas, however, helps us determine what we should do. When we evaluate an idea (and here I'm borrowing from Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats) we can look at that idea emotively and intuitively, and we can look at it factually and logically. We can look at the idea's positive aspects and its negative aspects. And, importantly, we can see what creative possibilities it offers. The possibilities latent in an idea are its most important aspect.

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