I only get tasks or homework or whatever maybe twice a year. If I do it's something that helps me and I do it (or at least do it for a week and then say it's absolute crap). My T doesn't tell me how to do things in my life though (like there's no 'go talk to person X' or 'don't talk to Y' or similar). I do the things that are given as tasks to me, or at least I try to. But I wouldn't if it were orders on how to live my life.