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The best advice I've seen is from the Patreon CEO, Jack Conte. (spoiler: It's don't listen to generic advice.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTpBFiW5PBo htt

• ChildOfChaos 4y ago
  For sure, I think this is absoutely key and then one has to then wonder, if advice has to be specific to the person and the excat set of circumstances you are in, then you are perhaps the best place person to give yourself such advise, I wonder then if this is what people should develop instead, the ability to reason and to think more rationality, to break apart problems and figure out soultions and then apply this to there own life, rather than looking to books for answer, we put these people on pedestals, like they are some kinda super genius that figured out the answer, but the truth is, they are people, just like us, of course books can provide sparks of insight that help you come up with your own ideas though. I think this all comes from the biggest thing that I think a lot of people fail to grasp and that is just how crazy complex the world actually is, we reduce things so much to make it easy to describe and communicate but the amount of factors happening that we have little or no idea about is crazy, far more than we can comprehend, so often people reduce there success down to a few soundbites or advise to someone else. The thing that drove this home for me was when I heard 'there are even more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe', Chess is a small board, with a few pieces that have clearly defined allowed moves and yet it becomes crazily complex, if a small game board is like that, what about an entire planet with pieces (people/environment) that we do not understand.