I can't remember any advice I'll call best that I ignored so I'm just going to respond to the second part of the prompt question... Do you believe people learn more from listening to advice or from making their own mistakes? I actually asked my mum this question when I first read it and her response was also same as mine.
Life can be so funny sometimes, or do I say, people can be so funny? we use the excuse of "mine would be different" to experience the same mistake we've seen people go through and mistakes can not be undone, some even end up in very bad situations that one can't come out of.
Advice are more powerful than they seem, they are like light to a dark path or a map to an unknown place. Nobody knows what is coming except God and another who have been there already, who didn't get the advice early enough and had to experience it by themselves to guide.
Even the Bible says, where there are no counsels, people fail and in the multitude of counsellors, there is safety. For me, that says a lot about how important it is that people learn from listening to the advice of people than ignoring them to learn from their mistakes. It saves more if we listen.
But from my experience and from stories told, people learn more from making mistakes than they learn from listening to advice. Although I think it's changing now that there are more listeners or scrollers to active people who are taking action. People are quick to talk and more people are quick to listen to anything nowadays.
But my opinion remains, it's best to learn from others experiences through advice than going in to experience it to learn when the mistake happens. Some mistakes are worse, deadly and irreversible, especially when it's on life's important issues. So it's an advice that people listen more to advice than learn from mistakes.
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