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On The Futility of Offering Advice
Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away.
The art is in creating the conditions for people to choose to act on the advice. Good advice unheeded is a waste for everyone involved.
That’s why expensive consultants can stay in business, and why committing to a process before you’re sure of all the de... See more
The art is in creating the conditions for people to choose to act on the advice. Good advice unheeded is a waste for everyone involved.
That’s why expensive consultants can stay in business, and why committing to a process before you’re sure of all the de... See more
Seth Godin • Good advice
As I thought through the bad advice I had received, I realized it was because I had gone to someone who was really good at some things, but not the things I was asking about.
Tim Grahl • Running Down a Dream: Your Road Map to Winning Creative Battles
The personal development / productivity space is littered with conflicting advice of varying utility. It attracts the intellectually promiscuous. Commitment-phobic concept sluts endlessly dabble with frameworks and tools, hoping to someday reach a moment of certainty when they’ll finally take action…99% of self-help is escapism.
Daniel Kazandjian • 80/20 Personal Development
28 slightly rude notes on writing
experimental-history.comIt is, of course, much easier to complain about how things are bad rather than do anything about it, which is why people prefer to complain. 1/100th the satisfaction, but 1/1000000000000th3 the effort. Plus, when someone eventually fixes the problem you can pat yourself on the back for having brought attention to it. You can even complain about mul... See more
Karl Yang • Commenting vs. Making - Chiefofstuff
