The Problem With Advice

Take any conversation, with anyone, and there are words like ‘should’, ‘must’, ‘do this’, ‘try this’, ‘try that’ et al.

Conversations are filled with advices.

After the conversations, what happens to those ‘advices’? Your guess is as good as mine.

Consulting and consultation are all about advising and advices. Often, these advices are paid for.

If you pay for it, you take it seriously more often than not and try to follow what you’ve been advised.

But, by and large, consultations that are not paid for, advices coming out of those are rarely followed. Even if taken seriously there’s something about ‘not paying’ that makes one not follow the advices. But there’s another greater reason apart from ‘not paying’ that makes it really really hard to follow any advice.

It’s this.


Advice = Set of Movements


That’s right. I am talking about any and every advice. And there’s a reason why advice is never understood as ‘set of movements’. Movements that make up advice are typically not spoken about or remain invisible.

Neither the advice-giver nor the advice-taker really focuses on movements involved in and hiding behind the words that make up an advice.

Now you will say, how can movements be invisible?! Moves, or movements, that are not ‘made’ are invisible. Is that a surprise?!

Let’s repeat that. After a slight modification.


Advice = Invisible Movements


Am I saying that if advice, the invisible movements it contains, if they become visible, advice-taker will follow the advice?

Yes, it is not a guarantee but there are greater chances of following and see the advice materialize in real life.


8th Oct 2025, 5:53 am, sipping coffee and munching broken layers of khakhra


You should be tested on movements; instead you are tested on textbooks.


Teachers and their advices and their teachings fail because they are so devoid of ‘movements’.


Popping Pills is the shortest visible movement-driven advice. Followed avidly and misleading all the same.