Kevin Kelly: belief

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…What should institutions do to, in essence, subsidize advice or encourage it? That’s a good question. I think — is there anything institutions can do? Institutions — like an educational institution, I think, it would help them — in terms of education — to work on life skills and learning how to cultivate good habits versus bad habits, trying to guide people with heuristics. That when they confront things that are unclear, that they have a general heuristic to help them get through it. That’s a kind of advice. I think the educational system could incorporate the idea of advice into its curriculum as a way of helping young people develop these principles in their own lives that they could be reminded of. How many people asking for advice actually want advice? And to the extent they don’t, what is it they’re looking for? People write me for advice every day, and at least half the time, I feel maybe they want the feeling of having asked me rather than the advice. Now I’m happy to supply them with that feeling, but maybe it’s process they’re maximizing.…

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