text: Listening to the experiences of others is critical when it comes to making a good choice. Ask for advice from someone who is older and wiser. Someone with additional life experience. While it may sound cliche, your elders do have valuable lessons to share. Additionally, this life experience could include bad decisions that they, themselves, have made in the past. Learning from the mistakes of those around you is a foolproof way to avoid making a poor choice yourself. Likewise, other people may have been in a similar situation before. If another person has been faced with the same decision, or one that is related to your own, that person will, certainly, be happy to tell you what worked, or did not work, for them. Taking into account the experiences of others increases the likelihood of making a choice that leads to your success.