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> s/he has been failing up until the previous day and is already giving public advice about how to do it better?

This was my thought exactly. The internet is full of articles along those lines: I've been doing this new routine for 2 days, here are 8 pieces of advice for you.

I recognize the enthusiasm for sharing new discoveries, and it can be inspiring, I just wish those who did would be generally less prescriptive about it.

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it's my impression that a lot of life coaches sell a strategy that they themselves didn't really explore and verify and then basically use their customers and recipients to convince themselves that they know what they are talking about.

It's a variant of the classic book "how to make a million dollars" which contains the advice "sell a book giving instructions on how to make a million dollars by selling a book about the same".

Here it's read life advice on the internet to be able to get stuff done to promote life advice on the internet.

i'm actually referring to something a bit different. i observed that many people seem to act especially preachy about certain opinions they objectively can't be truly convinced of (yet). my interpretation is that they actually preach to themselves to convince themselves.

That lines up with my experience as well, and I’be caught myself doing it too in the past.

Interestingly, it can also be right, but ‘new’ - and just caught up in the excitement of learning.

90% of what everyone says (near as I can tell) is what we’re saying to ourselves.

same here. also stumbled upon that via self-reflection. then observed that pattern with other people. as you say it's probably a normal and healthy impulse but one should not live it out and particularly not build a business around it. and yes, i also think that most communication is a weird form of soliloquy.

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