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What a piece of advice that you've held onto over the years? (self.dadvice)
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For me it's if it won't matter in 5 years it doesn't matter now. Kept me from being a tyrant over things like leaving lights on and what not.

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[–] ook_the_librarian 2 points 11 months ago

I'll add another side-effect of always making sure you follow up with the promised explanation.

99% of the time, they don't really want to know "why?", they want to stall. Now they have to sit though an explanation. You can make it as short or long as you want. I.e., there is a cost to asking "why?". Not sure if that's the greatest lesson, ymmv.