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#465: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead

The Art of Manliness

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How to Give Better Advice to Your Best Friend

The author Dan Arielli has talked about this and showed the research that shows that we give better advice to other people than we give to ourselves. It's like, you know how sometimes you're too close to a problem to see it clearly? So that's the way we are with our own lives. But when our best friend is having a problem, that we can see totally clearly, right? We can see our best friend's situation. And so we're able to make a really great decision for our friend... but then when it comes to ourselves, we have trouble.

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