It’s funny to me that I’m still seeing discussions about this almost 10 years later after I first heard it, and I imagine that people are going to keep riffing around it for decades more. I think the broader point is that taking advice literally is more damaging than any advicehttps://twitter.com/andrew__reed/status/1247989369241079809 …
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It’s interesting to me that the focus often tends to be “this advice is bad” rather than “if you can’t tell that this advice, like all advice, is tremendously context-dependent, then you’re going to have a bad time”
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there is no advice you can give me that is “damaging”, because at this point I’m smart enough not to mindlessly buy into something because someone else said it reflecting on the most damaging advice I’d ever gotten... it’s never the letter of advice, but *my* reading of it
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Replying to @visakanv
Maybe the real good advice was inside you all along!
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