But this advice thing couldn’t be that hard. After all, Ben Franklin wrote an advice best-seller where he said things like “A cat in gloves catches no mice.” Who’s putting gloves on a cat?

And consider the advice you usually get at graduation. It’s terrible.

First, they say that the world is your oyster. This is true. It is sort of an acquired taste, hard to open with a spoon, and threatening to people with shellfish allergies.

Take the road less traveled.

The road less traveled is probably less traveled for a reason, like, it’s a less efficient road, or maybe it leads through a bad area of town where guys try to open your car windows with hooks.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Sure, if you want to waste a lot of money on your space program and don’t care about astronaut life.