The Amazing Things & Ideas - 049 The greatest advice I ever got
Hello! Here's the weekly Amazing Things & Ideas newsletter. Find one original idea on “The greatest advice I ever got” followed by the List. The greatest advice I ever gotThe last newsletter was titled “Anti-advice”. There I described my aversion towards receiving most advice. Today’s title is “The greatest advice I ever got”. Strange… But not quite as you’ll soon figure out. The greatest piece of advice I ever got was to question authority. I distinctly remember reading a quote by the great American polymath Benjamin Franklin,
Later, Post-its of “Question Authority” would be found stuck on the walls in my room. The whole idea was really profound to me. And although at first it was all in-principal only, soon I could see the effect of toying around with that little piece of “advice” in my everyday life. I’d start questioning the standard things that I’d never questioned before but that now seemed frivolous. I realized norms could be questioned. They should be questioned. That opened a whole new horizon of thought in my mind. A place I’d hardly have been able to go to before coming to this understanding. Hence I write about this advice. As you’ll see, it aligns with my aversion towards conventional seeking and application of most advice. Question everything. The Amazing Things & Ideas List
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