Your Two Cents Probably Aren’t Worth a Dime
Why most advice is usually bullshit
“You should….”
Those two little words at best make my eyes glaze over, and at worst make me want to drown somebody in a toilet. But it’s not because I’m a know-it-all who believes she never needs help.
“What do you think I should…?”
This phrase to me has become no better. I feel a twinge of discomfort in most cases when I’m asked for anything that even remotely resembles advice. But it’s not because I don’t want to help people who need it.
In both cases, it boils down to an observation that has been years in the making: Most advice I’m going to receive, or even give, is usually bullshit.
Hear me out on this. The truth is, I actually don’t have a problem with advice. At least not in principle. But thanks to years of situations I’ve been a part of, or I’ve observed with other people, I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of advice is not exactly what it seems. As a result, I look at most advice that comes my way, or any advice I could possibly give, through a certain lens. And that lens makes me think of the following problems.
