Is Your Advice a LIE? 🤯 Alex Edmans on Questioning Everything #podcastclips #badadvice #shortsfeed

We like to quote people all the time without actually checking. Is there any evidence at all behind the rule?

In this whole space of well being, flourishing, happiness, there are so many people who take individual stories and paint them as this is the answer that will change your life.

We'd like to have a particular result, and even if that result was discovered in a narrow setting, we claim that the result is true and applicable to all settings. You can do anything you put your mind to, just dream and just if you want something hard enough. And that suggests that the world is your oyster. You don't need to be limited by your abilities, just have a big enough vision. But the evidence for what he says is extremely, extremely weak.

A statement is not a fact. A fact is not a data. Data is not evidence, and evidence is not proof.