Not actually wisdom
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Bad advice: Consistency is the most important thing
Welcome to Bad Advice, a series I’m writing that I wanted to call Bullshit Wisdom but chickened out because of Teh Algorithms. Sometimes advice is just bad. Sometimes advice is good but it strikes at our insecurities so we react against it. And sometimes it’s both. With all of these posts, I understand that people’s Continue reading
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Bad advice: “You should have” is only good for time travellers
Imagine you’re doing something difficult, perhaps for the first time. Maybe you’ve made a new recipe. Maybe you’ve given a speech, run a training session, had a job interview or even flown a plane. And your family member, mentor, supervisor, manager, teacher, podiatrist or parole officer turns to you and says… Continue reading
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Bad Advice: If you’re lonely…
I was walking back from town, alone, to my bedsit flat. It was cold, crisp, and dry, as that city so often was, and my room was probably cold. I heard someone say my name, with that sort of surprised delight when you see someone who you didn’t expect to see, but are pleased to… Continue reading
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Bad advice: Fake it till you make it
I know that some will find fake it till you make it genuinely inspiring. There are positives to the phrase, as a piece of advice… It acknowledges that we don’t always feel confident when we start It assures us that we will grow in confidence the more we try It gives us the hope of… Continue reading
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Bad advice: Ignore them (and they’ll go away) and other crappy advice for victims of bullying
I was thinking this morning how there are so many bits of generic advice we parrot without thought and I could genuinely write a series on these useless platitudes, or to be more brutal, bullshit wisdom. “Bullshit wisdom” is hard to spot because we say it so often and repeat it so much that we Continue reading
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