Michael Bungay Stanier

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505 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose · How to Tame Your Advice Monster and Become a Better Listener | Michael Bungay Stanier · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And he would go, oh, wow.

And honestly, that already was revelatory to him.

I had no idea what was the details of being said.

I could tell that it was a real thing.

I could tell he wasn't play acting.

I could tell we were having a real conversation.

But I don't need to know the details to be of service.

And in some ways, that is one of these kind of counterintuitive insights around almost how to tame your advice monster, which is the more you can realize how little you actually know about the person, about what's really going on, about what's really hard for them, about what the context really is, the more you can realize how unlikely it is that the advice you've got is the advice that they're actually looking for.

Before we hit the record button, we were talking about change and we're talking about your new book.

And this idea that when you realize how hard it is to change yourself, you should realize how minusculely impossible it is to try and change somebody else, even if they want to be changed.

You have to...

Allow that agency to stay with them.

Yeah, that is all very good advice.

I've spent 10 years going, I get the irony of me giving advice on how not to give advice.

a coach or the being of somebody being coach-like versus the doing of it.

Because the book, the first, you know, the first book is all about the doing of coaching.

Here are seven questions.

Here's ways of asking questions.

This chapter is about the being of coaching and how being a role model can be incredibly powerful.

You know, when people are working with you, Arik, partly they're there for the wisdom that you bring and the questions that you ask.

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