Firstly, since I don't want to spam replies, a comment on an earlier post: > "Yelling at people doesn't help. It kind of feels like people are telling a person

Firstly, since I don't want to spam replies, a comment on an earlier post: > "Yelling at people doesn't help. It kind of feels like people are telling a person to just cheer up if they're clinically depressed." Except it's completely different. "Go interact with human beings" is actionable advice, he even listed a whole bunch of ways by which this interaction can be achieved. This is very different than a general, un-actionable "just get better, duh". To do what he suggests you literally just follow his post. His advice is IMO relevant - just like when I'm feeling frustrated at work my coworker tells me to go take a walk. It's directly actionable, and it works. > "I did it a few times to try to see what it is people get from it" I think this is at least part of the problem. This is sort of like saying "I picked up a basketball a few times, I just don't get it", or "I sat in front of a piano and hit some keys, but I still don't get it". Volunteering is not some kind of religious experience where you go and 30 minutes later you've received the Divine Revelation of Why This Matters. There is no magical threshold where you will suddenly be dumbstruck with All The Volunteering Secrets. If you want to grok volunteering, you need to have more than a glancing blow with it. You will not collect the rewards on the first day, or the second, or the third.