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LandGod  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: What's the Best Thing to Say to a Troubled Person?

I think this is really good advice. I'm very logical guy and so when people would come to me with a problem I would try to solve it. One of two things would always happen though, either the person would stop coming to me with their problems or I would become exasperated with them and stop wanting to listen to their problems.

Eventually I realized that no matter how good of a solution you have to someone's problem it's still totally unhelpful if they're not in a place where they can hear that.