#410 Excellent Advice for Living

On my sixty eighth birthday, I decided to give my young adult children some advice. I am not a frequent advice giver, but soon I was able to write down sixty eight bits. To my surprise, I had more to say than I thought. So for the next several years I wrote down a batch of advice on my birthday and shared it with my family and friends. They wanted more.

I kept going until I had about four hundred and fifty bits of advice I wish I'd known when I was younger. I am primarily channeling the wisdom of the ages. I'm offering advice that I've heard from others or timeless knowledge repeated from the past. Or a modern aphorism. That match my own experience.

I think of these bits as seeds because each one of them could easily be expanded into a long essay. Indeed, I have spent most of my time writing by compressing these substantial lessons into as compact and treatable forms as possible. You are encouraged to expand these seeds as you read. Align with your experience.

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