{"id":6711,"date":"2020-04-28T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2022-11-22T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:56:03","slug":"68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UPDATE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Don&#8217;t be afraid to ask a question that may sound stupid because 99% of the time everyone else is thinking of the same question and is too embarrassed to ask it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Being able to listen well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love keep asking them &#8220;Is there more?&#8221;, until there is no more.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 68 bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write up more bits of wisdom on my following two birthdays, which were also widely shared. They were such a hit that Viking Penguin books thought they should be in a book, and I thought so too. So I gathered the three lists, weeded out the weak ones, polished up the best, and then I wrote an additional 150 more bits of advice, until I had 450 of them. I put them all into a small book you can slip into your pocket. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book, <a style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tTKAlc\">Excellent Advice for Living<\/a>, is designed to be the perfect gift.\u00a0 I already know it makes a fantastic graduation gift. You can order it on Amazon <a style=\"font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tTKAlc\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tTKAlc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7311 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/files\/2022\/04\/ExcellentAdviceForLiving_221026_A-copy.jpg 1538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>[Follow me on Twitter<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevin2kelly\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@kevin2kelly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Join my newsletter<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/Recomendo\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recomendo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for 6 recommendations per week.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits: Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}