Why Do People ask Rabbi Shais Taub for Advice !

Register for the live course: https://soulwords.org/how Three live sessions • March 16–18 • Limited enrollment People seek me out for my advice. I write a weekly advice column, and for over a decade people have asked me questions about their lives. What’s strange to me is that I feel like a barely functional adult. I’m in an adult’s world trying my best to do what other people do, barely getting by. So how can advice that comes from someone who barely knows how to live be so helpful for other people? I noticed something: one of the ways I help people is by listening really well to their question. The question is the answer. When you hear the question clearly, you realize that people already know what they need to do, but something is covering it. Sometimes the only thing needed is to remove that veil so they can see it. Some of us feel like outsiders among human beings. Temple Grandin called it being an *anthropologist on Mars*—studying people in order to understand how they behave and why they do what they do. Over time, paying attention to people’s motivations, fears, wounds, and stories creates insight into how life works. Most people coast through normal life without payin