Advice Gets Good When It Gets Specific

Generic, uncontextualized advice is a menace- by definition it attracts the lost and the confused and only makes them more lost and more confused. Even the seemingly most universal, failsafe advice of the ‘work hard’, ‘try your best’, and ‘believe in yourself’ ilk, can be disastrous for certain people. It can merely act as a motivator and energy bo... See more

high-value advice, in general), is about insight .

Insight requires context, nuance, and judgment.

• What are you trying to accomplish?


• What's your timeframe?


• What other constraints should I be aware of?


• Do you have more time to invest than money, or more money to invest than time?


• What do you love?


• What do you hate?


• What will you say you'll do?


• What will y

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• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.

• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.

• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.

• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.

• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.

• If you stop to listen... See more