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We aren’t starved for advice—we’re overwhelmed by it.
Consuming advice often feels productive while quietly replacing action.
Most men don’t need more wisdom—they need fewer inputs and more reps.
We’ve Reached Peak Advice
We’re living in the golden age of advice.
Everywhere you look, someone is telling you how to live better:
Three habits to fix your mornings
Five rules for better marriages
Ten ways to be disciplined
Seven steps to mental clarity
A daily routine that will “change everything”
Podcasts.
Clips.
Reels.
Carousels.
Frameworks stacked on frameworks.
And somehow, in the middle of all that wisdom, something strange has happened.
I stopped listening altogether.
Not intentionally.
Not as a detox.
Not as some principled stand against content.
I just… reached a point where I didn’t want any more of it.
We’re not starving for information. We’re suffocating under it.
At some point over the last decade, advice stopped being guidance and started being entertainment.
We don’t consume it because we’re ready to act.
We consume it because it feels productive.
Listening to a podcast sounds responsible.
Saving a quote feels like progress.
Nodding along to a clip gives the illusion of movement.
But most of it never leaves our phones.
We scroll it.
We like it.
We screenshot it.
We forget it.
And then we move on to the next piece of wisdom that tells us what we already know.
Advice has become a substitute for action.
That’s the uncomfortable truth.
At some point, advice stopped pushing us forward and started giving us a place to hide.
Because action costs something.
Action requires discomfort.
Action risks failure.
Action exposes where we’re inconsistent.
Action demands effort when no one is watching.
Advice doesn’t.
Advice lets you feel like you’re improving without actually changing anything.
And when there’s an infinite supply of it, it becomes very easy to convince yourself that you’re “working on things” when you’re really just consuming content about working on things.
I didn’t switch to shorter content. I just stopped consuming.
Here’s the part that surprised me.
I didn’t trade hour-long podcasts for two-minute clips.
I didn’t move from long-form to “efficient” learning.
I didn’t optimize my intake.
I just lost interest.
Not because the ideas were bad.
Not because the creators weren’t smart.
Not because podcasts stopped being valuable.
But because I realized something quietly and all at once:
I already knew enough.
Not everything.
But enough to act.
And action doesn’t need a constant stream of new inputs.
It needs space.
It needs focus.
It needs follow-through.
We don’t have a scarcity of information problem.
There’s a moment when more advice actually slows you down.
Once you’ve heard the message a hundred times—
Be disciplined
Take ownership
Show up for your family
Get your health in order
Stop blaming other people
The problem isn’t understanding anymore.
It’s execution.
And execution gets harder when your head is crowded with everyone else’s voices.
At some point, the next right step isn’t another episode.
It’s turning the volume down long enough to hear your own.
Most men don’t need more wisdom. They need more reps.
That’s the shift.
Less consuming.
More doing.
Less listening to other people talk about their routines.
More building your own.
Less bookmarking advice.
More practicing it.
Because no podcast can:
have the hard conversation for you
put the phone down during dinner
get up early and move your body
repair a strained relationship
choose presence over distraction
That part is on you.
And once you really accept that, the hunger for endless advice fades.
Turn the volume down on your feed. Turn it up on your life.
This isn’t an anti-podcast article.
This isn’t a rejection of learning.
This isn’t a call to ignorance.
It’s a reminder of something simple:
Advice only matters if it leads to action.
And maybe—just maybe—we’ve reached the point where the most meaningful thing you can do isn’t find better input…
…but finally act on the input you already have.
Less consumption.
More contribution.
Not because advice is bad—but because your life doesn’t change when you hear the right thing.
It changes when you do it.
What’s one piece of advice you already know—but haven’t fully acted on yet?
Until next time—
keep the fires burning.
– Clay
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