Picking up the thread from last post on "lies to children";
There is something so simple about it, how most advice is in a way bad, because we can only ever give advice based on our own understanding, and not the 'real' situation. Nor can we (most of the time) decipher and understand the drivers for someone else, really see where they want to go, who they want to be.
People mean well, especially friends and family, but they're going to give you bad advice. ... PS the irony of this post is not lost on me.As often a great mind-bender from Seths blog - how he gives advice about people giving bad advice.
There is something so simple about it, how most advice is in a way bad, because we can only ever give advice based on our own understanding, and not the 'real' situation. Nor can we (most of the time) decipher and understand the drivers for someone else, really see where they want to go, who they want to be.
And thus, our advice is more or less a story about how we think the situation should be handled to reach the resolution that fits our narrative - not necessarily for ourselves, but our narrative of the current and future state of whomever we are talking to.
Does that mean we shouldn't give, or ask, advice?
Or just that when we decide what to do, advice and "seven ways of" or "top ten tips" should be a set of inputs to calibrate our path?
I'm certainly not telling...
