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There is no such thing as universal advice. All advice is useful in some context, but no advice is useful in all contexts. Coaches and mentors can be so effecti
by jkhdigital 6y ago
There is no such thing as universal advice. All advice is useful in some context, but no advice is useful in all contexts. Coaches and mentors can be so effective because they consistently deliver the right advice in the right context. Advice from the internet, on the other hand, is almost always mismatched to the context of the reader.
- jchook 6y agoThe advice "there is no such thing as universal advice" is, by its own rule, not universal advice, and therefore serves as its own counter-example.
- jkhdigital 6y agoTrue, if you interpret “advice” as we do in cryptography to mean “any arbitrary string that could provide an advantage in solving the problem at hand”.
- alexandercrohde 6y ago>> There is no such thing as universal advice. All advice is useful in some context, but no advice is useful in all contexts. The interesting thing is some advice is pretty good for almost all-contexts (e.g. "If you feel like killing yourself, don't.") Some advice is very good for its specific context "When playing chess, a knight is worth about 3 pawns." Some advice sounds good, but is completely impractical or even bad "Never give up, never surrender." "Dance like nobody is watching" I find, usually the best tidbits of information (e.g. /r/lifeprotips) don't try to be too brief or cutesy. They are fine being specific "It can be rude to joke about when a married couple is going to have kids. They may already be trying"