When you know
My question to you, dear imaginary cyber friends, is: what do you do when you know someone is deliberately giving you bad advice? And that you feel so sorry that they wrote their strategic attack plan on PowerPoint and it's projected on their foreheads while they're looking straight at you? And you know that they think they are being smart and that you are so naive as to not detect what they're actually doing? (That was more than 1 question, but...yes)
Friends, friends, friends...I was so happy to have been reminded by this quote from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by this tweet: https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1156516957665091584
https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1156516957665091584https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1156516957665091584
My recommendation: read. Educate yourself. Know all the facts related to what you do and how to live your life. For example, read your national or local driver's handbook. Know all the rules. If someone teaches you how to properly park beside the curb, giving you all the nitty gritty technical advice (about 30-cm away from the curb, positioning your wheels when uphill or downhill, shift to park) but deliberately omits the important detail that you are adjacent to a fire hydrant...no, no, no. Cautiously correct them by saying, isn't it illegal to park and block a fire hydrant? And then they say, "no, no, it's alright to do that and it's a case to case basis" but you've read the revised edition of the handbook and know that there are repercussions. Try to remind them again to see whether they've simply forgotten the rules or are really derailing you and setting you up for failure in ever so undetectable increments. Deal with this person in a nuanced manner.
Be aware, friends. Be aware.
On a side note, I have received advice to be wary of bad advice. Now that's definitely sound advice.
Friends, friends, friends...I was so happy to have been reminded by this quote from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by this tweet: https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks/status/1156516957665091584
My recommendation: read. Educate yourself. Know all the facts related to what you do and how to live your life. For example, read your national or local driver's handbook. Know all the rules. If someone teaches you how to properly park beside the curb, giving you all the nitty gritty technical advice (about 30-cm away from the curb, positioning your wheels when uphill or downhill, shift to park) but deliberately omits the important detail that you are adjacent to a fire hydrant...no, no, no. Cautiously correct them by saying, isn't it illegal to park and block a fire hydrant? And then they say, "no, no, it's alright to do that and it's a case to case basis" but you've read the revised edition of the handbook and know that there are repercussions. Try to remind them again to see whether they've simply forgotten the rules or are really derailing you and setting you up for failure in ever so undetectable increments. Deal with this person in a nuanced manner.
Be aware, friends. Be aware.
On a side note, I have received advice to be wary of bad advice. Now that's definitely sound advice.
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