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That tweet won’t save you, and neither will this blog post
- Too many people listen to self-help podcasts to soothe themselves instead of taking what they learned and putting it into action
from Conscious Creators — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your Soul: Rolf Potts — How to Find Soulful Success and The Dance Between Creativity and Business by Rolf Potts
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- 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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- Anyway, the point I’m trying to get to is that if giving direct advice to one individual in the real world is often a waste of breath then what does this say about the generic, scattershot, shouting-through-a-bullhorn advice that people dish out online each and every day? Not only am I convinced that such actions- whose motive is to build a pliant ... See more
from On The Futility of Offering Advice by Thomas Bevan
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