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Thread by @patio11: "Some people really benefit from hearing advice that everyone knows, for the same reason we keep schools open despite every subject in them h […]"
Advising is hard. It’s a complex activity that involves negotiating someone’s difficulty in dealing with a problem and their responsibility for dealing with it. Often, it degenerates into telling people what to do or showing off how much we know. Perhaps if more of us understood advising a little better, we could avoid giving overbearing advice and... See more
Joshua Habgood-Coote • Recognise the point of giving advice and you can do it better | Psyche Ideas
you are not getting better because 3 main reasons, which I have listed below, along with my own commentary.
- You’re only learning from the same people as everyone else. I hate self praise (to a fault) but this is something I try to remedy with this newsletter. An aggregate of learnings from beyond the beaten path