It doesn't stop them from trying. And you can't blame them, because each of us feels like we understand the causes of our own past successes and failures. We tell stories to ourselves, about ourselves, that seem to make sense. Why not tell the story to others so that they, too, can benefit from it?
Sunday, May 1, 2011
The Difference Between Good and Bad Advice
Most advice is terrible. Whether you get it from a bestselling author, your boss or your neighbor, nine times out of 10 it's about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. And yet most advice -- at least the kind you take seriously -- comes from people who are in their own way very accomplished. So it presents something of a paradox: successful people who can't seem to effectively articulate how they became so successful.
It doesn't stop them from trying. And you can't blame them, because each of us feels like we understand the causes of our own past successes and failures. We tell stories to ourselves, about ourselves, that seem to make sense. Why not tell the story to others so that they, too, can benefit from it?
It doesn't stop them from trying. And you can't blame them, because each of us feels like we understand the causes of our own past successes and failures. We tell stories to ourselves, about ourselves, that seem to make sense. Why not tell the story to others so that they, too, can benefit from it?
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