Will somebody please explain...

[MissH]

Why it;s so much easier to advise other people on their choices than your own?

[Pas]

The way I see it is that it is easier to cut to the core of another person based on a dozen bullet points because we inherently see ourselves as more complicated than we actually are and others as more simple than they actually are.

[Hillary Emick]

Because it's easy to be objective when you are removed from the situation.