Clean Your Room & Other Dumb, Simplistic Advice

Every year, I will notice a new set of self-help gurus come on the scene. Their well-intended advice is usually repackaged life advice that I could trace back to early 1900s authors and researchers. Some go back even further than that. Of course, if simplistic, dumb advice worked, there’d probably be very little need for psychologists, therapists, and life coaches. “Oh, thanks for letting me know that all I needed to do was to pull myself up and use pure willpower to stop my addiction. That’s super helpful!” Let’s take a look at some of the dumb, simplistic advice being offered to people nowadays. 1. Clean your room and get organized. I guess parenting has truly gone out the window with any semblance of teaching kids some responsibility if one of the most popular self-help guru’s primary takeaway is, “Clean your room.” I reviewed Jordan Peterson’s not-too-successful attempt at a self-help book, Twelve Rules for Life. I did not come away impressed by his shallow thought processes and constant diving into tangential, largely unrelated topics in each chapter. This is what he says about Rule 6 in an interview: Well, my sense is that if you want to change the world, you start from yourself and work outward. Because you build your competence that way. It’s like, I don’t know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic system if you can’t keep your room organized. Ah, yes. “Let he without sin ...
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