Post #26592
2025-12-03 14:32 UTC
Replies (5)
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@bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2025-12-03 14:58
People are naturally resistant when told “what to do” so advice isn’t often very helpful.
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@UncleArthur@lemmy.world 2025-12-03 15:24
What bunkuprewster said.
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@digdilem@lemmy.ml 2025-12-03 16:35
“Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.”
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@blackbrook@mander.xyz 2025-12-03 21:35
A lot of advice is like medicine. Whether it is good or bad for you depends on what you are or aren’t suffering from
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@FritzApollo@lemmy.today 2025-12-03 21:45
Feng shui was originally presented as a mystical, “wive’s tale” system exactly because of this. If a sage told a young person to keep their windows clean because then your house will be full of “clean” light instead of “dirty” light, and this will improve your mood, the young person would tell him to shove off. But if he says cleaning your windows invites the lucky spirits to enter your home, it plants a seed in the person’s mind and they might actually try cleaning their windows.