What are you supposed to do if you have the “moral of the story” down before the story itself?
So that I leave no doubts, allow me to explain what I mean w/ an example.
So, for eg. if I want to advice someone that enjoying what you do is important but if you’re enjoying merely consuming stuff, and not actually creating something, your idea of “having fun” is shallow and will not only stop being enjoyable in the long term, it’ll hurt you too. Maybe even become an addiction of some sort.
Now, If I tell this to someone just like this, they’d pay no heed to me, or simply brush me off. As they should, I’d say. ‘Cause this sounds too patronising.
But, If I could package this in a story, I may have a fighting chance of them taking what I wanted to say along w/ them.
How do I do that tho? Is my question.
How do I take the bottom-up approach instead of top-down in this particular case or just in general?
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I think stories like that come from your life experiences and having wisdom. I usually share a similar experience without comment and if they get the point they get it, if they don’t then it’s whatever. People don’t really like getting unsolicited advice. Sometimes it’s better just to listen, people sometimes figures stuff out on their own when they have a sound board.