3309: How to Give Advice to Others by Mark Manson on Personal Growth & Self Help

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3309: Mark Manson outlines six essential principles for giving advice effectively, emphasizing the importance of ensuring the advice is wanted, relevant, and delivered without condescension. He encourages meeting people where they are and offering help without expecting anything in return. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://markmanson.net/how-to-give-advice Quotes to ponder: "Make sure the person you’re trying to help is actually looking for help, lest you come across as a condescending asshole." "If you don’t have experience but you do feel like you have an important or useful observation to make, then you should always qualify it by saying: 'I’ve never had this problem before, but it seems to me.'" "Advice is a gift. And as a gift, it is given unconditionally, with nothing expected in return." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily. How to give advice to others by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net.
0:07.0	I'm your narrator Justin Molick reading you blogs every single day of the year including holidays.
0:12.0	And we're going to get right to today's post as we every single day of the year including holidays.
0:12.8	And we're going to get right to today's posts as we optimize your life.
0:17.2	How to give advice to others by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:25.0	In the internet age everyone and their dog is an expert on something.
0:31.0	The beauty and the curse of the internet is that everyone has an opinion
0:35.4	and is going to share it. And not only are we all going to share it, but we're more convinced
0:40.4	than ever of how right we are. So I've come up with six basic principles to follow
0:46.6	when giving advice, you know because I'm so convinced of how fucking right I always am. I think these principles are widely applicable whether you're
0:55.8	helping your nephew deal with bullies at school or critiquing some guy's
1:00.4	Starcraft theory on a nerd forum or giving life advice to your brother.
1:05.6	If you genuinely want to help someone, I recommend following these six principles when giving
1:11.1	advice.
1:11.7	Number one, make sure the person actually wants advice.
1:17.0	No type of advice is worse than unsolicited advice. No one is more likely to be ignored than a nosy know-it-all.
1:26.1	Make sure the person you're trying to help
1:27.8	is actually looking for help,
1:30.0	lest you come across as a condescending full.
1:33.6	Bad advice example in response to someone excited about getting accepted to graduate school.
1:39.4	Hey, that's cool you got accepted, but honestly graduate school is a waste of money the debt you incur is
1:45.8	hardly worth the slight bump you may get on your resume my cousin spent all this
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