Children, cover your ears
I just read possibly the worst advice ever. The post is titled "Keep your ambitions in check". The writer goes on to advise you to "train your brain to see and take the detours", and suggests replacing hard problems with easy ones so that you don't have to work as hard. If you want to climb Mount Everest, think about taking an elevator to the top of the Sears Tower, it's much easier.
If people had taken this advice years ago we'd still be trading pelts and believe in a flat Earth.
