[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What is the best piece of advice someone has...
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       Ask HN: What is the best piece of advice someone has told you?
        
       Encouraging me to keep asking "why does work the way it does" was a
       big one for me. Also how did it impact what you have done?
        
       Author : adawg4
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-01-22 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | brtkdotse wrote:
       | "Try to never be the person who cares the most" was an offhand
       | remark my dad made to me when I was stressed over a group project
       | in school. It helped me what in hindsight would've been very
       | stressful situation many, many times.
        
       | svilen_dobrev wrote:
       | from equally-looking options to do, with all other "important"
       | criterias being ~~same, choose the easier..
        
       | mindcrime wrote:
       | "Always be the smartest (eg, 'most well informed' or 'best
       | educated') person in the room - ON SOMETHING".
       | 
       | Or to paraphrase slightly "Have a _thing_ that is your
       | speciality, to the point that you are almost always the most
       | knowledgeable person in the room w /r/t that topic."
       | 
       | I think this is a valuable idea to keep in mind, even if it
       | remains forever an aspiration (which it probably will if
       | interpreted in the strictest sense).
        
         | halpert wrote:
         | That's the opposite of advice I'd give to someone. If you're
         | the smartest in the room, then you're in the wrong room.
        
       | 9wzYQbTYsAIc wrote:
       | Festina Lente - make haste slowly.
       | 
       | "Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up".
        
         | pawsforthought wrote:
         | "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
        
       | thinkingemote wrote:
       | Beat advice I've heard regarding opinions: "you are on average
       | most likely to be wrong. Therefore try to understand how and why
       | you are wrong".
        
       | sdoering wrote:
       | Don't try to be right. Try to become less wrong with every day.
        
       | halpert wrote:
       | The best advice I received only applies to younger folks, but it
       | was immensely helpful when starting my career. The advice was to
       | look at those older than me in the workplace and to ask myself if
       | that was the type of person I wanted to be when I get older. If
       | the answer is no, then it's probably a good time to leave.
        
       | drakonka wrote:
       | Don't tell people your goals.
       | 
       | I heard this in a TED talk years ago[0].
       | 
       | Telling people what you plan to do can evoke the same emotions as
       | actually doing that thing, lowering the drive to do the work to
       | accomplish the goal because you got your emotional reward
       | already.
       | 
       | Being a serial starter, I retroactively noticed this pattern in
       | myself when I heard this. Now, when I want to do something new, I
       | shut up about it until I either complete it or have enough
       | momentum in the project to have reached critical mass.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4
        
       | chiefalchemist wrote:
       | It terms of making: It usually takes twice as long and cost twice
       | as much as the inital estimate.
       | 
       | In term of personal finances: Save early and save often. Compound
       | interest is your retirement friend.
        
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