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The alternative to generic advice isn't "precise instructions", it is specific advice. Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus.

The alternative to generic advice isn't "precise instructions", it is specific advice. Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus. Specific advice has to do with a situation. "I have trouble meeting my sales targets." Advice: "Hire a sales person." Q: "I don't know how?" Advice: "Do you have an HR network?" etc. The hardest part is definitely not sticking to generic advice. Generic advice is contradictory, obvious or both. (Stay focused on the big picture, vs. be detail oriented. They are both true at different times).

coldtea 8y ago
>Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus. Specific advice has to do with a situation. "I have trouble meeting my sales targets." Advice: "Hire a sales person." Q: "I don't know how?" Advice: "Do you have an HR network?" etc. The second advice is only useful if you've learned (or naturally follow) the first generic kind. If you can't sit down and wort hard when its needed (but e.g. instead expect success to come easy once you've launched your startup) or if you can't focus (but instead try to do everything at once, or you're over the place, easily distracted, etc), whichever "specific" advice you're told to meet sales targets wont make much difference. >The hardest part is definitely not sticking to generic advice. Generic advice is contradictory, obvious or both. It being obvious doesn't preclude it being extremely important or it being hard. The best advice for diet can be summarized as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants". All obvious parts, all very beneficial if followed. And yet, tons of people fail to follow through, and want magic "specific advice" ("do the avocado detox", "eat 80% protein and less of 50 grams of carbs each day" etc).

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The alternative to generic advice isn't "precise instructions", it is specific advice. Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus.

by projectramo 8y ago

coldtea 8y ago
>Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus. Specific advice has to do with a situation. "I have trouble meeting my sales targets." Advice: "Hire a sales person." Q: "I don't know how?" Advice: "Do you have an HR network?" etc. The second advice is only useful if you've learned (or naturally follow) the first generic kind. If you can't sit down and wort hard when its needed (but e.g. instead expect success to come easy once you've launched your startup) or if you can't focus (but instead try to do everything at once, or you're over the place, easily distracted, etc), whichever "specific" advice you're told to meet sales targets wont make much difference. >The hardest part is definitely not sticking to generic advice. Generic advice is contradictory, obvious or both. It being obvious doesn't preclude it being extremely important or it being hard. The best advice for diet can be summarized as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants". All obvious parts, all very beneficial if followed. And yet, tons of people fail to follow through, and want magic "specific advice" ("do the avocado detox", "eat 80% protein and less of 50 grams of carbs each day" etc).