The flip side to that is we are terrible archivists of our own lived experiences. We constantly editorialize them in order to spare our egos and minds the inco

The flip side to that is we are terrible archivists of our own lived experiences. We constantly editorialize them in order to spare our egos and minds the inconvenient facts of our actual path through life. These never get communicated with the advice and so most advice ends up really being self serving fairy tales of a time that never existed. I never give advice. I'll explain similar situations I was in before, what I did, why I did it, and _critically_ what I think I could have done to avoided the effort or to have had a better outcome if I had a second chance at the problem. You can give perspectives. What people do with those is up to them.