Your Advice is Terrible
4 min readDec 15, 2023
Some terrible advice I’ve been given and some alternatives when you don’t have anything valuable to add to the discussion.
When someone we know is having a problem, it’s natural to want to help them. It’s a sign that you’re kind and caring and want to be useful— these are all good traits, so why is so much advice met with irritation? Honestly, because a lot of it isn’t helpful.