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So
I went to this Starbucks on Liverpool Street in London yesterday; as you might
probably imagine, I did not do so because I wanted to have a cup of coffee.
No-
one goes to Starbucks to have a cup of coffee.
I
went there to do some general browsing and research and to write up and submit
my daily entry whilst sipping a Grande have- in peppermint whole- milk canella
mocha which was, for some reason, also named Antoni.
As
I was going through my LinkedIn profile, I noticed (on my home page) that many
people had posted articles which began with ‘BEST ADVICE’ followed by something
like ‘Breathe More Often’ (well not really but you got the point).
For
instance, see:
As
a normal human being, the first thing that came to my mind was a rather simple
question:
Who,
on Earth, would be so brave as to give people BEST ADVICE?
I mean, the
only people that I could think of, were various dictators and socialist regimes
whose advice was ‘BEST’ mainly because it was the only one available.
Then I
thought about my own articles, pondering as to whether I had ever referred my
readers to a piece of BEST advice.
It took me
about two and a half seconds to conclude that I had not.
The
mainstream reason for that was that to give someone ‘BEST ADVICE’ was rather
silly as it was grammatically incorrect.
I know that
English is not my mother- tongue but, as far as I’m aware, the correct way of
saying it is ‘THE best advice’; there’s good advice, there’s better advice and
then there’s the best advice.
That’s how it
works.
Further to
the above, I was wondering whether it was a good idea for anyone to give people
around him BEST ADVICE.
In the end of
the day, it was perfectly acceptable to give people advice and even claim that
the said advice was good or, indeed, better than someone else’s.
But to say
that it is BEST ADVICE means that you are, at any point, ready to defend that
title in comparing it to all other advice out there.
The above
notion is, naturally, quite ludicrous in its entirety because there are not
many people who physically have the time to defend their BEST ADVICE from the
rest of the world.
Moreover, I
don’t think that many people will accept
that the said advice is BEST ADVICE because, surely, there can only be ONE
piece of advice in a given area that is THE BEST.
I have,
however, stumbled across three BEST ADVICE articles on making the most out of
social media yesterday which, naturally, confused the Hell out of me and almost
made me want to order another Grande have- in peppermint whole- milk canella
mocha, i.e. an Antoni.
In the light
of the above, I would very much like to discourage people from giving BEST
ADVICE and implore them to focus on proving those around them with GOOD ADVICE
instead.
Also, on a
completely unrelated topic, if anyone who’s in the publishing business is
reading this, please stop advertising new shows on TV as the ‘Number One Hit Series
in the US’ because, as already noted above, there simply CANNOT be twenty
number one hit series in the US at the same time.
People are
not as dim as you think they are; take my GOOD ADVICE and rethink your
understanding of the number ‘1’.
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