{"id":2224,"date":"2012-06-25T09:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2012-06-25T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T09:25:02","slug":"best-piece-of-advice-for-architecture-students-architects-anyone-in-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/best-piece-of-advice-for-architecture-students-architects-anyone-in-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Best piece of advice for architecture students, architects, anyone in fact…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ve blogged a similar post previously but just to make sure you’re listening, here it is again…<\/p>\n
This is the greatest piece of advice I can give to any architecture student, anyone aspiring to work in this precarious game and anyone working in the construction industry; although the advice given is based on my line of work, I suspect that the same advice applies to anyone working in any field. I frequently have chats with a structural engineer (Hi Paul) who concurs exactly with what I’m professing. I heard something similar to this advice from the great Part III lectures from John Cane, although at the time I didn’t really understand what he meant. Now with time and experience I understand. The advice is given without examples or case-studies; you just have to accept the words as truth.<\/p>\n
Are you ready?<\/p>\n
Here it is, the greatest advice ever:<\/p>\n
100% of the problems that you create for yourself in business are caused by you being too helpful.<\/strong><\/p>\n So, from this day on. Ask yourself one question:<\/p>\n “Not now, but in the future will this act of helpfulness come back and bite me in the ass and cause me problems at a later date ?<\/em>”<\/p>\n Trust me. Comments welcome…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve blogged a similar post previously but just to make sure you’re listening, here it is again… This is the greatest piece of advice …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,17,53,62,73,78],"tags":[217,748,845,883,1100],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n