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Re: Follow boring advice
#2Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
Re: Follow boring advice
#3Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
Because it's hard to follow any advice, let alone boring ones. I'd probably say it's hard to do many things.
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#4Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
The advice for dieting is also boring (exercise more, eat less and more healthy foods), but there are still many overweight people. The answer is straightforward: it is actually pretty difficult to follow boring advice.
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#5Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
Because emotions rules.
It doesn't matter that you know what you have to do, eat well, do exercise, how to prioritize, what's good for you and what's not.
Unless you steer your emotions in the right direction, you won't be able to achieve anything, because resistance and stregth of will won't get you very far.
And changing your emotions is really hard, because they're mostly formed in your youth, and doing so need a systematic approach, consistency, and strengh of will... and that's precislesly what you lack; a vicious cycle.
Re: Follow boring advice
#6Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
The advice for dieting is also boring (exercise more, eat less and more healthy foods), but there are still many overweight people. The answer is straightforward: it is actually pretty difficult to follow boring advice.
I agree. Boring advice are usually pretty simple. But simple does not mean it's easy.
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#7Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
Most people lack the 'hustle' needed to action any advice let alone boring advice.
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#8Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
Are you asking this question yourself or are you suggesting that the author should have added this to the article?
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#9Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
I like this question.
Currently, it's rendered in gray font, and it has five answers.
I think it's the sort of question that's annoying to think about. It's not a complex technical question with a clearly defined answer you can look up on Wikipedia. It's not even obvious where you should start if you wanted to answer.
There is plenty of boring advice out there, but dispensing advice doesn't reliably help people. And yet, it feels like it should. Well-meaning people keep writing more of it.
Can we improve that?
How do you measure advice? Track compliance? Subjective ranking? Score outcomes?
I feel like there's plenty of science we're not doing, data we're not taking, that's applicable even to simple questions like "how do I make my advice more helpful", "what makes people not stick with it", "does following boring advice actually improve outcomes"
It's not particularly expensive to measure these problems. They could have a high impact, multiplied by a whole lot of people.
I'm not sure why the response today was to hide the question.
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#10Author should explain this: everyone can follow boring advice, so why aren't far more people successful?
> so why aren't far more people successful?
You can't defeat power law. It's something that happens everywhere.
Natural phenomenons, our universe, social interactions, romantic interactions, business etc.