added by Supritha S and · updated 3y ago
Advice Gets Good When It Gets Specific
When giving or receiving advice, focus on the general, not the specific.
This is exactly how I navigate the perils of advice in my own writing: I try to provide the general principles, ideas, frameworks, and questions that you can take, mold, and leverage in your own way.
Chris Parry added
- 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
from On The Futility of Offering Advice by Thomas Bevan
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• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
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