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Some notes before reading

A note to all who are confused by this page.

Negative advice is not to be confused with bad advice. There are two different types of advice one can offer to somebody. Positive advice is the act of encouraging somebody to do something(Ex. telling somebody to work out) and Negative advice is the act of discouraging somebody from doing something(Ex. telling somebody to not do drugs). For the latter example, it would be bad advice to tell somebody to do drugs and is an example of bad advice. So just because the advice might be negative does not inherently mean that it is bad.

In my opinion, it is better to give somebody negative advice than to give them positive advice (a majority of the time). To me, it just seems easier for most people to give positive advice. From great advice like "going to church" or "start working out" to "you should go crazy in your youth" or "you should go to college no matter what". there is a short story I would like to tell that shows with why people like to give positive advice. While I was in college, I had many people in my church tell me I should go to Hellenic college or a Jesuit university for my first four years instead of going the path I was taking. I saw the cost was between 20-30k a year for those institutions with just the tuition alone. This bothered me so much that I started asking more people what to do and got even more responces. What finally ended this worry was a conversation I had with, my philosophy professor, Zach Millis. When I brought this worrysome matter to him, he said some thing that changed my prospective on advice and how to deal with it. He told me this

"it is easier to live somebody elses life when you don't have to reap the consequences of it."

This single qoute highlighted to me, that most people trying to give my advice had no skin in the game, when it came to my sucess. and to take advice with a grain of salt. It also made me weary of giving people positive advice short of "become an Orthodox Christian." With negative advice, it instructs people to not do certain actions, so the amount of harm to them from not doing something stays the same. Anyways back to the negative advice.

Negative Advice