The WORST advice you can give someone.

8 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Eric Siu reflects on the nature of giving advice, contrasting the common practice of offering direct "you should" recommendations with a more nuanced approach of speaking to one's younger self. He explains that while the questions people face are often universal, the answers are highly personal, shaped by individual circumstances, life stage, and perspective. Siu deliberately avoids blanket prescriptions, instead sharing insights he wishes he had known at 22, and emphasizes his goal of helping listeners formulate better questions and wrestle with their own dilemmas rather than providing one-size-fits-all solutions.

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with Alex Hormozi, the way he does it on Twitter, he's really giving advice to his younger self. I can see how tough he's being on his younger self, right? For you, is it just like, you're drawing from your experiences, but there's also like, you should do this? I try to avoid you should do this type stuff. So I do some of that, where I feel like it's advice to my younger self, and I explicitly say like, this is the things I wish I knew when I was 22, that I feel like I've kind of learned at this point in my life about these different areas. Usually I try to avoid it, and the reason is, my answers to these questions are gonna be different than yours, are gonna be different than our friends, are gonna be different than our parents, At any stage of your life, the problems and the questions I'm asking are universal, but the answers are entirely driven by your circumstances, your perspectives, the things you want, like what season of your life you're in. And so my goal with all of it is to help you ask slightly better questions, to help you wrestle with them slightly better, but not to give you the answer to it because I actually don't know the answer for you.