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Kevin Kelly: belief

3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech

“I think a good way to pay attention to advice is to encapsulate it in some way that you can remember and to remind yourself.”

— Kevin Kelly

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Speaker
Kevin Kelly
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
3 May 2023
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…If someone asks you for advice on “how do I get better at following advice,” what do you tell them? [laughs] Advice? I think a good way to use advice is to try to use it as a reminder. Most of the advice — here’s a piece of advice: is that everything good has already been said, but we just need to say it again. People weren’t listening. A lot of advice is really reminders of things that we already know. I think a good way to pay attention to advice is to encapsulate it in some way that you can remember and to remind yourself. They really should be called, maybe, reminders. What should institutions do to, in essence, subsidize advice or encourage it?…

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