4 ms·
The worse the advice the more generic. Generic advice sounds like: “to get good at golf … you really just need to hit the ball more. With the club.” Nothing w
by anonreeeeplor 3y ago
The worse the advice the more generic.
Generic advice sounds like: “to get good at golf … you really just need to hit the ball more. With the club.”
Nothing was said. Nothing objectionable. Mass audience can understand it.
That is roughly the quality of most advice.
The really good advice in my experience is never popular or even said out loud.
The really good advice would make you dislike the person saying it, usually.
Example: “if someone is doing something valuable but they are really bad at marketing, if you can get away with it, steal their idea and remarket it and go to market before they find out what you did.”
I have seen many people get rich doing that approach.
I have never seen anyone getting rich off of Naval threads.
Another piece of actual advice:
“If you want to get rich, form a private group chat with your friends and coordinate to fool the general public and trade insider information.”
Because that is what the rich people actually do.
Would you say that out loud? No, everyone would hate you if you did.
Or maybe …
“If you want to create a popular fitness channel, do a little steroids (you can take smaller amounts) and pretend you just exercise and eat the supplements you are selling a lot. And rent a lambo for $2K and stand in front of it for Instagram photos.”
Or
“Go on shady websites and pay an engagement farm from India to like all your posts so you seem popular.”
All the shit that actually works and people actually do no one ever says out loud.
- appplication 3y ago> “to get good at golf … you really just need to hit the ball more. With the club.” On one hand, it sounds generic, shallow, and self- evident, but on the other hand this is basically how the entirety of the Tao Te Ching reads. It is possible that people find value in hearing things repeated to them that they likely already know.