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Memorized Rules: How to give your life direction

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I recently overcame this self-sabotage. If I have a superpower, it’s that I now turn advice into action. This post breaks down how, and it shares the best advice I've been given. The first cause of advice laziness is misclassifying what life advice is. We treat life advice the same way we learn someone’s name: briefly acknowledge it then assume we’ll remember it. But a name is trivia—a single factoid. That's not what life advice is. Instead, it's a framework of instructions for how to behave—not unlike the instructions learned in school textbooks. To implement them, you had to drill them until they became second nature. Similarly, you contextualize and remember advice by thinking through its application to an upcoming problem. The second cause of advice laziness is not knowing how to navigate advice overload. My solution is to treat life advice like I can only remember a few at a time and to only memorize that which I can frequently use. Here's an example of advice I memorized from Sah

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