Advice that changed my life

Alexei Sorokin
5 min readDec 13, 2021

Earlier today I read this article (Why Online Self-Help Gurus Like Tim Denning are Full of Shit). I think the story is a little too aggressive but I kind of agree with its premise. I think giving advice to adults is useless. In the vast majority of difficult situations — be they in business or relationships — we will go with our own instincts and emotions, whether they are right or wrong. The change, if it happens, comes from within. For example, we’ve exhausted all of our resources and have no choice but to give up on some struggling business or relationship; or we make a conscious and independent decision…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/