The reason there’s a lot of good advice for people in 20s/30s is that their problems are so easy, tons of people solve them well enough to produce generalizable value and share. They’re n>1 answers. 40+ you’re lucky if you can half-ass even your n=1 case. They’re n=0.5 answers.
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Replying to @vgr
I'm thinking of rounding up a group of 60-something centimillionaires or better and starting an advice-giving service for mids-30s to 40-somethings who want to _really_ take it to the next level (but you know the first one I approached would just end up taking my idea somehow).
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I don’t think that would work. I don’t think rich people give good advice to poorer people. Money makes most problemsceasier than mean. Might work with 60+ ordinary survivors of harder-than-normal lives. I’d take advice from a 60+ Syrian refugee but ignore a 60+ millionaire.
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I'm sure we can find a 60+ Syrian refugee millionaire somewhere to satisfy both our tastes. More seriously, I agree people who have made it tend not to give good advice; you need to watch what they do on the way up, but they cover their tracks. That said, I am not sure talking...
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...to Unsinkable Molly Brown types is much more edifying. For example, I've spoken with Holocaust survivors, and been amazed at their resilience and spirit, but my main learning was, "wow, some people seem to have way more natural resilience and spirit than I ever will."
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Yeah there’s selection effects in both cases Richers: “why don’t they eat cake?” Hell-and-backers: “Just cut off your arm”
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