Why you Should Never Take Life Advice on The Internet — My Manifesto for Life in a World of Instant Gratification

Chris Herd
4 min readOct 9, 2017

Instant Gratification

Non-existent attention spans

This is the age of ‘I want it yesterday’ and ‘i’m bored of you already’.

The age of expectation while having zero appreciation

My time is valuable so you better treat it wisely but I need all of yours

We are quick to Judge but slow to reflect

We see other people’s mistakes without witnessing our own. We ignore the bad we have done in ourselves and the good in the people around us.

The grass is always greener until green isn’t the colour we want

We let the manicured pictures people flaunt on social media influence our own happiness, instead of understanding the game. We experience debilitating unhappiness by comparing what we don’t have to what other people do.

But we don’t compare what we do have to what other people don’t

And time stands still

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Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌