I would suggest the readings at https://betterhumans.coach.me/a-directory-of-advice-that-wor...
Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
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#72Zen mind, beginner's mind - Shunryu Suzuki. I don't think it's life advice. But, it certainly had a profound impact on my life.
As an entrepreneur, I found the best way to learn about life is to read biographies of successful people, especially the ones that speak of the transformations.
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein - Walter Isaacson
Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclaimer: This is it’s a series of posts on how to get better at life written by someone that ended their own life.
Your disclaimer is a touch ad hominem isn't it
Ad hominem is more about attacking someone's character or motive. Pointing out flaws in someone's skill when they try to teach that skill is a valid argument. No use taking swimming lessons from someone who can't swim.
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#74Naval has a lot of good content. I would start with his tweet storm: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?s=21
This is just a bunch of vague garbage. Sure, "don't trade your time for money, invest and make money off of your investments", but saying so is a lot harder than doing. All of this vague garbage is a lot easier for white upper class people that get nice interest free loans from their white upper class parents.
Naval is an Indian Born Self-made guy. Sure, it is hard. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty hard to avoid the reactionary politics when consuming Peterson, but if you can yeah you get mostly tried-and-true basic self-help advice.
It's funny. He took like one political stance and then got labeled awful things. We can just skip past the trans thing. It's ok. For those that don't know: he interpreted a law that was passed in Canada as compelled speech law and decided that was a line that shall not be crossed, no matter the presumed benefit. That line happened to coincidentally involve trans people and, well, it's the late 2010s, so that speaks f…
> It takes about three minutes of listening to him talk on the subject to understand that his singular life's mission is to figure out what is necessary to prevent totalitarianism ever again
I spent some time listening to him, and that wasn't my impression. It struck me as a mixture of contrarianism, attention seeking behaviour and latent transphobia.
Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#76If my kids ask me for advice about buying a house, taking a job, doing a degree, etc, I'll refer them to bogleheads.org without hesitation.
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#77Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#78What sort of "life advice" do you want?
I think for starters is to realize there is a lot of contradicting life advice. Then the other thing is wether people follow the advice they give others.
There is a Carl Jung quote:
> Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life.
Personally for me, understanding life is understanding the pros/cons of every scenario.
The pros and cons of short term thinking.
The pros and cons of long term thinking.
The trade offs between both. There are trade offs in everything we do. Understanding them, and accepting them is important.
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#79Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, and his many tens of hours of content on YouTube. If you're willing to entertain the idea for a brief moment that the Bible has any wisdom at all, his Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories is a must. I recommend them even if you aren't willing, in fact. They converted me, and i was a fairly nihilistic atheist for almost all of my thinking life.
I see Jordan Pererson gets downvoted here, but recommend all critic to read “12 rules for life” themselves. This book helped me a lot.
I am currently listening to the 12 rules for life audiobook, He does have helpful advice. but in the book he argues that chaos if feminine and order is masculine, and he fails to give any logical reasons for that claim. I understand those who are heavily offended by that viewpoint. Except from that the book is generally good. 3.5 stars.
Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#80What sort of "life advice" do you want? I think for starters is to realize there is a lot of contradicting life advice. Then the other thing is wether people follow the advice they give others. There is a Carl Jung quote: > Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life. Personally for me, understanding life is understanding the pros/cons of every scenario. The pros and cons of short term…
Yeah, came here to say the same thing. There's so much advice out there, different advice is good for different people at different times, and none of it can cover life in full.
One way to think of it is that reading advice puts you in the perspective of the advice-giver, instead of your own. Like, when you read a book titled "99 ways not to be a loser", you begin worrying if you're a loser and seeing everything through that lens. And then you read "35 ways to become a decent person" and suddenly being a loser isn't a problem anymore, now there's something else on your mind. And so on. It stops you from seeing your life on its own terms, from many angles and the actual weighting of each, which is very personal. It requires living, not reading.