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    AN ADVISORY CAPACITY

    Aug 06, 2020 3 minutes

    Taking advice is a like seeking directions to somewhere you want to go. By all means take it but be careful. I recently asked a lady walking along the street for directions to a part of town I didn’t know. She said she knew exactly where it was… but not how to get there as she’d only ever been there on the bus. The caveat was implicit, bless her, so I decided to ask another driver instead.

    Similarly, as a writer you would hope to get good advice from another writer, based

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