reflection
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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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The Little Things
I was waiting for a bus the other day and a small boy, perhaps two or three years old, was excitedly trying to tell me something. His big sister, a few years older than him, explained, “He’s telling you he went on a train today.” Sometimes, when life is heavy, you have to remember that Continue reading
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