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Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.

Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.

Approximate author period: c. 2014 AD · contemporary

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Author or tradition
Richelle E. Goodrich
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Approximate author period: c. 2014 AD · contemporary
Author activity documented by the author's own dated Smile Anyway blog posts in 2014. A 21st-century author-period anchor, not the composition year of all attributed sayings. Source: https://smileanywaybook.blogspot.com/ (accessed 2026-10-08).
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