Advice and Encouragement
About this episode
The episode emphasizes the importance of encouragement over advice in personal development.
Just as strawberries taste better when they are dipped in chocolate, advice tastes better when it is wrapped in a thick coating of encouragement. Your advice is valuable, but it will never make as big a difference as your encouragement. Encouragement is the opposite of flattery. When you flatter someone, you tell them something positive about themselves that they know is not true. And they suspect that you know it is not true. A flatterer is a liar who believes they are talking to a fool. When you encourage someone, you tell them something you have observed in them that they know is true, or have always hoped was true, and you are simply confirming it by speaking it out loud. You believe it to be true, and they know you do. And now they believe it, too. You have spoken to the greatness in them. You have seen something in them that they have always hoped someone would see. That’s what makes you a great encourager. The people in your life need your encouragement more than they need your advice. Think about the people who have made the biggest difference in your life. Those people believed in you and gave you their: Time Attention Patience Confidence When I say they “gave you their…
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