Advice

What I’ve learned from my decades on Earth: no one listens to advice.

There’s a woman, Kathryn Schulz, who did a great TED Talk about being wrong. She has many fascinating points, among them: being wrong feels exactly like being right. We all think we’re right about everything we think; otherwise, we wouldn’t think it, right? (Debatable.)

But none of us is really looking for advice; what we’re really looking for is affirmation that the path we’re already planning to take is the right one.

Everyone has to make their own mistakes, in their own time. You can see someone else’s train wreck about to happen, but you can’t stop it.

So my point is: I’m not going to give advice here. I’m just going to share some thoughts. Take what resonates; leave what doesn’t. But most of all: don’t be afraid to make mistakes. In fact, make as many as you can (and then try to learn from them), because the more mistakes you make, the more proof you have that you’re truly living. That’s the point, really, of being alive.