Chapter 25
Katy Milkman’s book, How to Change, includes a great bit of contrarian wisdom: giving advice is more helpful than getting it.
In one study, Milkman and her colleagues asked high schoolers to give students in lower grades advice on how to be successful. Most of the advice they gave was advice they’d received themselves—develop good study habits, don’t procrastinate, and so forth. “Lo and behold, our strategy worked,” she wrote.1 “The students who had given just a few minutes of advice performed better…. [It] didn’t turn C students into valedictorians, but it did boost performance for high schoolers from every walk of life.”
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