Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Giving advice? Do we do what we advise?

Quick point: an ethical person will only consult, advise, recommend, etc. only things that they do themselves.

There are limits. If I advise a company to buy a million-dollar computer system, that is ethical even though I don’t have a million-dollar computer system myself as I don’t need one.

Nevertheless, I advise people to do a little, fail a little, learn a little, repeat. If I am not practicing that, I cannot ethically advise that. There are many examples of advice:

• write every day
• write in a journal
• read every day
• read things that you don’t understand
• experiment every day

The list is endless. I do the above items, so I advise them for others.