#on/mentor How to tame your advice monster: Ted Talk by [[Michael Bungay Stanier]] [How to tame your inner advice monster |](https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-tame-your-inner-advice-monster/) TEDTalk: https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w The problem: your advice monster starts thinking about the advice after just a few seconds. It doesn't understand the scope of the problem, the people, the situation, it just has advice and wants to use it. - Problem 1: Solving the wrong problem but jumping too early to conclusions about what the problem really is. You are suffering from early closure. - Problem 2: despite how good we think it is, we don't really have very good advice - Problem 3: You're teaching them to not seek their own answers, and using your energy to solve their problems So that's the problem, better to think about the solution. Get a better [[Forming Habits]]: What's the [[Power Leaks]] here? It's clearly the ego wanting to show how much it know! What's the I want to have? : To be curious! To use [[Inquiry]] - [x] test [completion:: 2022-03-10] [[To build better habits, change your identity]]