Do what you can to actually understand the situation, including the resources the recipient is willing to put into following advice.
Thanks for the meta-advice. I try to do this already to some degree, but will try harder in the future.
Pjeby (if I understand him correctly) has been very good about the way people can reinterpret advice in light of their mental habits—for example, hearing “find goals that inspire you” as “beat yourself up for not having achieved more”.
This is insightful and may deserve being incorporated with your meta-advice above. Something like:
“Do what you can to actually understand the situation, including the resources the recipient is willing to put into following advice. Understand how they will reinterpret your advice and then act on such interpretations.”
This advice about advice can be thought of as a suggestion to think consequentially about the action of giving advice.
Thanks for the meta-advice. I try to do this already to some degree, but will try harder in the future.
This is insightful and may deserve being incorporated with your meta-advice above. Something like:
“Do what you can to actually understand the situation, including the resources the recipient is willing to put into following advice. Understand how they will reinterpret your advice and then act on such interpretations.”
This advice about advice can be thought of as a suggestion to think consequentially about the action of giving advice.