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What is the best advice you ever received?
- behnamoh 10y agoYou don't have to persuade others. Let them be. Just do your own thing. Forced work doesn't have forced result. It just doesn't work. Let things happen naturally in your life: water finds its own level. Not have a girlfriend? Probably because you don't see enough people daily. If you keep working on what you love, you'll meet people with the same taste, and you'll click with them way more than you would, if you wanted to force yourself to have a girlfriend (who doesn't care about what you do anyway). Admittedly, in some jobs you don't see enough girls and women around (remember all those jokes about programmers?), while in some other jobs like dancing, theatre, music, etc. you'll see many. This improves your chance of having a great relationship with (mostly) more beautiful girls. Now I'm not saying you should quit being a programmer and become a guitarist to attract girls, just know that at the end of the day, you can't have best of both worlds.
- pynerds 10y agoThe fastest way to learn anything - do it to learn, not learn to do it.
- bo_Olean 10y agoIf you have an option, listen.
- rman4040 10y agoTherefore let your words be few.You can learn more by listening and observing all that is uplifting.
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- paulcole 10y agoBasically that any advice you receive is going to be just plain wrong. Turns out it's true! People extrapolate advice out of their own unique circumstances, base advice off nonsense they see on the news, or just make things up to sound smart, just to name a few problems with most advice. Think honestly and critically about the next piece of advice you give/receive.
- m3kw9 10y agoDon't try to please everyone
- joefarish 10y agoDon't put something in an email unless you'd be happy with everyone in the office seeing it.
- kluck 10y agoDon't do what most other people do.
- debacle 10y agoGo out of your way to talk to people. Smile at them, learn their name and make sure they know you remember it. Learn the art of nonvapid small talk. It takes an minimal amount of effort to learn two or three small things about someone, and you will never in your adult life have too many friends or business contacts.
- baccredited 10y agoMaximize savings in tax deferred accounts (401ks, IRAs, etc)
- penguinlinux 10y agojust be yourself
- Mendenhall 10y agoBest advice I ever received was "Do it as if you knew how" so odd to hear growing up but really helped me.
- hvd 10y agolearn to debug
- codeful 10y agoRead books. Many of them
- p333347 10y agoBe sceptical, especially about advice.