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Most advice sucks.

Most advice sucks.

So I crowdsourced the best from 20 million people on Reddit.

Here are 10 life tips you wish you knew yesterday

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Family Treasure

Family Treasure

1) Get a blank book

2) Ask each family member over 50 to write down life advice that their descendants in 500 yrs should know

3) Keep passing it down

You now have a family treasure that gets more useful over time.

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Airplane Mode Hack

Airplane Mode Hack

If you’re stuck on an annoying call, put your phone on airplane mode instead of hanging up.

The other person sees “call failed” instead of “call ended”

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Reframing Your Day

Reframing Your Day

Instead of feeling that you lost the day after a bad morning

Reframe each day as 4 quarters:

• morning

• midday

• afternoon

• evening

If you blow one quarter, just get back on track for the next one.

"Fail small, not big." - Gretchen Rubin

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Keeping your Cool

Keeping your Cool

"If someone insults you during a meeting, pretend like you didn't hear them the first time.

Politely ask them to repeat themselves.

They'll either repeat the insult and look rude or realize their mistake and apologize."

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Venting at Work

Be careful who you vent to at work.

Just because they listen, it doesn't mean that they are your friend or have your best interests at heart.

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Free vs Open source

Free vs Open source

If you ever want software online for free, don’t search for "free".

Search for “open source” to avoid limited trial versions and malware.

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e.g. and i.e.

“e.g.” and “i.e.” are not the same

e.g. = for example

i.e. = in other words

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Email Address Hack

Email Address Hack

• Add "+1", "+2" before the @ in your email address

• Websites will register it as a new email, but still send mail to your normal address

Makes organizing accounts or free trials easy.

Example:

Primary: Bob@gmail(dot)com

Bob+1@gmail(dot)com

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On Arguments

On Arguments

“What proof would it take to change your mind?”

If they can’t give you an answer, then stop wasting your time.

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Anger and Mistakes

Anger and Mistakes

"Getting angry at people for making mistakes doesn't teach them not to make mistakes.

It teaches them to hide their mistakes."

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CURATOR'S NOTE

Inspired by r/lifeprotips Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) crowdsourced the best ideas to show us what advice actually doesn't suck.

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