Vilmantas
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Scott Berkun:
What's the best advice you've ever received? If you could give your twenty-year-old self one piece of advice, what would it be? Why? How looks your perfect day? How you stay so productive?
Scott Berkun
The best advice I've received is not to put too much faith in other people's advice.You should listen of course and spend time considering their point of view, but advice is far easier to give than to take.
If I were talking to my 20 year old self I would try of course, but i'd assume I'd be far too stubborn to listen. We only hear advice we're ready to hear, so it's a less a question of the advice you receive and far more about how interested the listener is in thinking about themselves or their lives differently. Few people want or are willing to change and no advice is likely to change that.
I stay productive by doing work I'm passionate about. I'm only on this planet a little while, and it's easy to see that if I'm productive I get to do more of the things I love.
If I were talking to my 20 year old self I would try of course, but i'd assume I'd be far too stubborn to listen. We only hear advice we're ready to hear, so it's a less a question of the advice you receive and far more about how interested the listener is in thinking about themselves or their lives differently. Few people want or are willing to change and no advice is likely to change that.
I stay productive by doing work I'm passionate about. I'm only on this planet a little while, and it's easy to see that if I'm productive I get to do more of the things I love.
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