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"Just be yourself" is the best advice. Unfortunately it's like a zen koan and takes many years to understand.
by abandonliberty 8y ago
"Just be yourself" is the best advice. Unfortunately it's like a zen koan and takes many years to understand.
- orev 8y agoIf it takes many years to understand the point being expressed by some words, then those words aren’t being very effective at teaching the point to begin with. One might say that’s a pretty clear criteria for evaluating whether some advice is “the best” or not.
- combatentropy 8y agoThe bar for advice is the aftermath, having followed it, not how easy it was to understand or to do.