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SYSK Choice: The Best Advice is Not to Give Any & Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance

Something You Should Know

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The Advice Trap

The advice trap is when you've default into giving advice as your standard reaction any time anybody comes to you and asks for help. There are basically three ways advice given goes wrong, and i'll just list off quickly for you. You're almost always solving the wrong problem if you think that the first challenge that they show up is the real challenge. And we've got these cognitive biases in our brain that are there to convince us that our advice is pretty awesome all the time. Bu truth is, your advice is not quite as accurate, as up to date or as useful as you hope it might be.

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