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65. What’s the Best Advice You’ve Ever Received?

No Stupid Questions

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Is There a Difference Between Advice and Benchwork?

When we get advice, or maybe when we give advice, it's a person giving advice to another person. And so there's no comparison. A lot of people responded to that environment by getting essentially paralyzed and then rewriting in a style in which everything read the same as everything else. But i think that's really hard thing to do. Obviously, writing and reading fiction is more subjective than doing bench work. If you're studying to be a chemist or biologist, let's say you could have this rule. Just do it. Then the rule could say, if you don't agree, ignore it. Evenif just did that, which is probably not the optimal way to handle advice, you

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