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Jun. 2nd, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumI've decided to start taking advice again.
About this time last year I got all cynical and stopped believing in advice. But I think I just misunderstood how it works.
It's very rare that advice actually changes one's course of action immediately and directly, especially if it goes against a long-standing habit. But where no long-standing habit exists, it's still useful in shaping behavior. And it can help in indirect ways, too, by showing one where to focus one's attention.
I dare say this even applies to dating advice. But I won't be asking about that for a while; I'm not really in a good state of mind to date just now. I'll wait until I'm feeling ambitious before I ask about that.
I accepted advice on my résumé when I applied to Google for the second time, and I got up to a second phone interview that time.
About this time last year I got all cynical and stopped believing in advice. But I think I just misunderstood how it works.
It's very rare that advice actually changes one's course of action immediately and directly, especially if it goes against a long-standing habit. But where no long-standing habit exists, it's still useful in shaping behavior. And it can help in indirect ways, too, by showing one where to focus one's attention.
I dare say this even applies to dating advice. But I won't be asking about that for a while; I'm not really in a good state of mind to date just now. I'll wait until I'm feeling ambitious before I ask about that.
I accepted advice on my résumé when I applied to Google for the second time, and I got up to a second phone interview that time.
