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← Previous segment →r Brain. It's full of reframes to make your life better. And I'm just going to give you maybe one or two a day. All right, here's one. Have you ever had somebody that you know needed your advice and you wanted to give them your advice? So your normal frame is, hey, here's somebody who needs my valuable wisdom and advice. I better give it to them. How does that work out?
I've got a better frame. Instead of saying the person needs your advice, say this person might need some information, some empathy, or some help organizing their thoughts. But what they don't need is advice. In the real world, nobody takes advice. People follow their own advice. So you can modify their advice to themselves by changing what they know if you have some information. Maybe they just need some empathy and they didn't need any advice at all. You know, that would be in a relationship that's often the case. So when you think somebody
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needs your advice, slow down, slow your roll. They might not need your advice. They might need something else. So that's the reframe. I'll have another one at the end of the show. It'll change your life. I wonder if there's any science that didn't need to be done. Hm. Oh, here we go. Eric Dolan at Writing in Cipher says there's a study in the Journal of Emotion, which you didn't even know existed…
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