Something I found funny and want to share…
I recently took advice, and was able to learn from the advice, and this is excellent advice. I gave over 50 other advices using similar methods over the course of the last four months, and have continued to do it for the next two months. The keys:
- Ensure your first sentence is bolded. There is nothing more annoying than having to read a whole paragraph, we could simply read the first sentence. Making it bold makes it stickier in your brain, and will increase the adviceiness of your advice. When in doubt, also use italics.
- Be sure to use a numbered list. If you give a list in paragraph form, it carries far less authority. People like numbers when they are receiving advice. Numbers mean accuracy. Numbers mean conciseness. Be sure to give things in numbers.
- Make one short. At least one of your pieces of advice should be one sentence.
- MAKE ONE IN CAPITALS. Make at least one piece of your advice in capital letters. However, do not fall into the trap of making this piece of advice your one sentence piece of advice, because no one likes a piece of advice, which is both short and capitalized. There should be more than one sentence.
- Adding a colon: is an invitation to have the reader jumping to your list further. Though it is nice to have things in bold, coupled with the trailing colon makes you wonder just what exactly might be after that colon.
- End on a feel-good. The ideal feel-good is elusive: you want something that is attainable, but is also a bit of a reprimand. Try things like “you can do this: but you will need to try very hard.” Or, “this will work for you-though at first I didn’t think it would work, it ended up working for me. Believe in yourself.”
