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一位年老的绅士去看医生，医生检查完后,跟他说“药物对你没有帮助，你必须彻底的休息，到安静的乡村待一个月。每天早点睡觉，多喝些牛奶，多步行。一天最多抽一根雪茄。”

一个月后，这位绅士再次去看医生，“你怎么样？”医生问，“我很高兴见到你，你看上去年轻了很多”。

“哦，医生，我感觉好多了”，绅士说，“我休息的非常好，我很早上床，喝很多牛奶，走很多路。你的建议的确帮助了我，但你告诉我，一天抽一支雪茄，开始的时候，那个雪茄差点要了我的命。在我这个岁数再开始学抽烟，真不是开玩笑！”

Once  an older gentleman went to see a doctor. The  doctor examined him and said “Medicine won‘t help you. You  must have a complete rest. Go to a quiet country place for a month , go to bed early ,drink milk ,walk a lot and smoke just one cigar a day.

A month later the gentleman came to see to the doctor again, “How are you ?”

said the doctor “ I‘m glad to see you again .You  look much younger.”

“Oh, doctor, I feel quite well now.”said the gentleman. “ I had a good rest. I went to bed early , I drink a lot of milk , I walked a lot. Your advice certainly helped  me. But you told me to smoke one cigar a day, and that one cigar a day almost killed me at first. It’s no joke to start smoking at my age.”

思考：想当然地提建议，有的时候会适得其反。

这个医生就犯了这种经验主义，而绅士没有问清楚，这也是他的问题所在。

当然，这或许是个笑话，但可以给我们一些启发。

遇到问题的时候，一定要沟通到位。

遇到不明白的事情，一定要问清楚。

否则就会像这位绅士一样，医生说每天只抽一根雪茄，而他自己本身是不抽烟的。

虽然是笑话，但我们不可以拿它当笑话来看。