Why Do People Ask Rabbi Shais Taub for Advice

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All right. So, a little personal confession time. I'm finally comfortable I don't know comfortable is the right word, but I accept the fact that people seek me out for my advice. I'm actually kind of famous for it. And I write an advice column a weekly advice column. I actually tried to quit a couple times where I stopped writing for a year, but basically for over a decade most of the time except for a couple times I quit for a year. I I've been writing a weekly advice column. The whole thing is foreign to me. It's very strange to me. me. It's very strange to me. But here's the thing. People come to me. They ask me for advice and then later even like not just like a week later where maybe they're diluted, but like a year later or 2 years later they'll come back and thank me and say, "Wow, that was life-changing. That was amazing." So, eventually I do and and it's not just like half the time it happens. It's like almost every time it happens. So, I have to just accept the fact that apparently there's something I'm good at, but and this is not imposter syndrome here. I'm I'm okay with being good at things.

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1. 0:00All right. So, a little personal confession time. I'm finally comfortable I don't know comfortable is…
2. 1:02I'm I'm okay with being good at things. I'm not embarrassed of being good at things.…
3. 2:02weird to me. If I'm barely functioning at living, then how come my advice is so…
4. 3:03like poetry, word salad. It's not. It's really exact. The question is the answer. The question…
5. 4:05>> I have a theory about that as well. Some of us perpetually feel like outsiders.…
6. 5:05When you feel like an outsider among human beings, you have to study the human beings.…
7. 6:07this stuff really really well? Scumbag narcissist manipulators. >> [laughter] >> You know why they study…
8. 7:07functioning myself, so I'm just happy to just focus on my own life. I'm not trying…
9. 8:07avoid it as much as possible because it is so depleting, but I understand that it's…
10. 9:39you're the type of person who maybe like me has been studying reality just because you…

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