Re:Not My Job
by mooreds on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:21AM
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> ... when you see advice, make sure you first check if it applies in your case or not.
I wish everyone understood this. There are four things you need to do to successfully apply advice:
1. Discover it (lots of ways to do this, even more now in the age of the internet).
2. Determine if it is good or not (you can rely on the wisdom of the crowds, other people's judgement based on qualifications, books, references, etc).
3. Determine if it applies to you (you have to make this call, requires thinking about the context of the advice giver and your situation).
4. Actually apply the advice. This requires making the changes suggested and is intrinsically individual.
Step 1 happens pretty naturally, and we're well set up for step 2 (though of course people get fleeced by snake oil salesmen all the time). Step 4 is intuitive.
I wish everyone understood this. There are four things you need to do to successfully apply advice:
1. Discover it (lots of ways to do this, even more now in the age of the internet).
2. Determine if it is good or not (you can rely on the wisdom of the crowds, other people's judgement based on qualifications, books, references, etc).
3. Determine if it applies to you (you have to make this call, requires thinking about the context of the advice giver and your situation).
4. Actually apply the advice. This requires making the changes suggested and is intrinsically individual.
Step 1 happens pretty naturally, and we're well set up for step 2 (though of course people get fleeced by snake oil salesmen all the time). Step 4 is intuitive.
But, don't forget step 3!