1221 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 23 Mar \ on: If You Could Give Someone One Advice In Life mostly_harmless
Here was my first answer, which I now withdraw:
Pick something on purpose, focus on it, and have a tangible output in a finite time.
Here is my official answer:
Talk to lots of different kinds of people from every place and all walks of life, and think about what they say.
Talk to lots of different kinds of people from every place and all walks of life, and think about what they say.
I like this so much. It doesn't suffer the myopia of a single piece of advice because it implies gathering lots of advice, but it isn't even prescribing advice seeking.
It reminds me of two things. The founders of Stripe would spend their summers as kids interning and exploring different careers (I can't remember where I read this it was so long ago and it looks like it's lost to google). Two, some of the most fearless people I've met changed schools or had geographic moves growing up.
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I didn't even consider that the people you talked to would be in service of advice-gathering, although I suppose it would count as that, implicitly. More that for almost everyone I know, including myself, real honest-to-god experience of other human beings in diverse circumstances is the scarcest thing in the modern world, and maybe the biggest point of leverage.
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