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15 September 2008 @ 9am

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Advice on advice

Advice taking: Only take the advice of people you want to be like.

Advice giving: realize you can only tell people how to act more like yourself.


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Posted by
Jake de Grazia
25 September 2008 @ 9pm

Or you can tell them to act less like yourself. Probably can’t tell them HOW to do that, though. If you could, that would be a problem. I think.


Posted by
steve
26 September 2008 @ 8am

And there you have the the elusive third way!


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