What I know - Episteme
  • Introduction
  • Learning
    • Learning How to Learn
    • The Feynman Technique
    • How to remember stuff?
    • Language Learning
  • Books
    • Books I Recommend
    • Book Notes
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • Marketing
  • Advice
  • Crypto
  • Courses
  • Communities
  • Privacy
  • Economics
  • Psychology
    • Emotions
    • Habits
    • Happiness
  • Productivity
  • Meditation
  • Tools
    • Bookmarklets
    • Command Line Tools
      • fish
    • IFTTT
    • Text Editor
      • Vim Plugins
  • Search
  • Movies
  • Documentaries
  • TV Series
  • Music
  • Short Stories
  • Writing
  • Programming
    • Git
    • JavaScript
    • Ruby
    • Learn The Command Line
    • Best Practices
    • Cheatsheets
  • Cryptography
  • News
  • Mental Models
  • Design
  • Research papers
  • Talks
  • History
  • Progress
  • Protocols
    • Dat
    • Matrix
    • MimbleWimble
    • IPFS
  • Questions
  • Poems
  • YouTube
Powered by GitBook
On this page

Advice

PreviousMarketingNextCrypto

Last updated 4 years ago

“In this way you must understand how laughable it is to say, ‘Tell me what to do!’ What advice could I possibly give? No, a far better request is, ‘Train my mind to adapt to any circumstance.’ …In this way, if circumstances take you off script… you won’t be desperate for a new prompting.” —Epictetus, Discourses, 2.2.20b– 1; 24b– 25a

Most advice is divorced from consequences. Advice is also cheap and lacks skin in the game. We discount advice because we . That said:

"Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts—giving it or getting it."

Beware of the [Solomon's Paradox]()

"People reason more wisely about other people’s social problems than about their own."

Since we are better at giving advice than taking it ourselves, we can hack it by asking: "what would I advise to my best friend?" or "what would X do (where X is the master of that particular domain)?". Considering a problem from a third-person perspective () makes us more adept at solving it.

Links

  • by Scott Alexander

  • Nassim Taleb: , ,

  • by Derek Sivers

  • Sam Altman: ,

  • Charlie Munger: ,

  • by Naval ()

  • by 80,000 Hours - based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford.

  • by Alexey Guzey

  • by Venkatesh Rao

anticipate more regret from following bad advice than our own plans
Seth Godin
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263016241_Exploring_Solomon's_Paradox_Self-Distancing_Eliminates_the_Self-Other_Asymmetry_in_Wise_Reasoning_About_Close_Relationships_in_Younger_and_Older_Adults
self-distancing
Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
Advice given to any young person
“Seneca’s Barbell”
I hesitate to give advice because every major single piece of advice I was given turned out to be wrong and I am glad I didn’t follow them.
Patrick Collison's advice
Uncommon Sense
The days are long but the decades are short
How To Be Successful
Paul Graham’s Startup Advice for the Lazy
Life Advice To Young People
on Getting Rich, Wisdom, Focus, Fake Knowledge and More
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)
thread reader
Ask Ariely column
Find a fulfilling career that does good
What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice
Boilerplate Advice