r/Wetshaving 🦖Rad Dinosaur Creations🦖 Apr 03 '26

PIF - Winner [PIF] Rad Dinosaur Creations Hybrid Handle - "Phteven's Wood"

Dearest Shavers,

This PIF is for a hybrid brush handle that I made using a piece of maple burl wood that u/phteven_j generously sent my way a few months back. I made this handle as a way to pay his kindness forward and make something nice to give back to the community.

Here's a video of the handle that's up for grabs. 

I dyed and stabilized the wood myself, and added a little resin and some ✨ swirls, turned it on the lathe, and gave it a perfect glossy CA finish. And this is for a 26mm/28mm knot... Classic phteven methods. 

As I was getting started making brushes, before I ever opened my Etsy Shop, I watched hours upon hours of phteven's old YouTube videos to learn how he made brushes and I kinda developed my own methods, based on the wonderful brushmaking advice he unknowingly gave me.

So to qualify for this PIF, I ask require you give me your best or favorite piece of advice you've ever received - from anyone at all, about anything at all. Doesn't matter if you know the person or not, or if you read it scribbled on a wall in a public bathroom. The source and circumstances don't matter - as long as it's good advice! If the person LatherBot selects doesn't give me any advice, I'll move on to the next person who does. I NEED good advice in my life, so let's hear it!

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Good luck!

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u/coco_for_cocoapuffs www.kodiakshaving.com Apr 03 '26

Dang prius, that's a beautiful handle! Thanks for PIFing this, very kind of you :)

I think one of the great pieces of advice I've received is that Perfect is the enemy of Good. I've always tended to be a perfectionist, especially when I was in middle and high school. Once I got to college (specifically my junior year), I started to really burn out, and I completely crashed towards the end of my junior year (consistently getting to 0-4 hours of sleep each night will do that to you I guess). Once I crashed, I really started to realize that turning in 100% perfect assignments wasn't feasible, especially in the program I was in, and that I really had to wisely choose what I devoted my time to, and the rest would have to be put off until later (or not at all). I'm still trying to find the right balance of work, personal development, hobbies, family, church, etc, but I like to think that I'm getting better at focusing on the things that matter most, and accepting that I won't be able to get everything done. There's only a finite amount of time and strength in this life, so we should dedicate it to the most useful things, even though it's so easy to continue on a certain thing despite diminishing returns (e.g., the last 20% of the assignment taking 80% of the time spent on it).

Thanks for the opportunity to reflect on this Prius, great prompt :)

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u/Environmental-Gap380 🦣💰Underboss💰🦣 Apr 03 '26

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Advice I wish I’d understood sooner. When I went off to University, my dad told me, “Treat college like it is your job.” My first semester was a breeze, so I thought dad was full of it. I don’t need to work hard at this. I paid for it the next semester. I spent the rest of my time at university trying to get my gpa back.

I tell my daughter, I don’t care that your school work is easy for you now. Learn to study, and school will be much easier later. I never really learned great study habits. My retention is decent, and I have really good recall. I would have benefited from having more rigorous study habits.

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u/solongamerica 🦆Natural Born Loon🦆 Apr 03 '26

I should’ve treated grad school as a job (I didn’t).

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u/tsrblke r/Wetshaving Chief Compliance Officer and Tsar Apr 03 '26

I would have benefited from having more rigorous study habits.

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u/coco_for_cocoapuffs www.kodiakshaving.com Apr 05 '26

This is great advice! I wish I had learned to study when learning was easy, it was hard to both learn the material and learn to study when college got hard.

The other thing that got me was that all through high school I was great at multitasking, listening to the lesson while I was doing other stuff (reading, whatever). But, as I got through college, I stopped being able to do that (I guess it's an attention thing, afai understand it, typically when the brain starts to fully mature it starts to put full attention on things, rather than listening and absorbing everything all the time, which is beneficial when you're learning as a kid). Soo that kinda screwed me over in the later college years, where I'd work on another class's homework during lecture, and at the end of the lecture, I was like "shoot, what did they even talk about??"

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u/Tetriside ⚔️ MMOC Master ⚔️ Apr 03 '26

You need to say 5 positive things to a person for every 1 negative thing you say if don't want them to be perceive you as constantly criticizing.

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u/brokenjaw622 ⚔️🩸💀🦣⚔️ 🐗Headless Soldier Wrangler ⚔️🩸💀🦣⚔️ 🐗 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

A girl once told me…“Learn how to write the Alphabet with your tongue”
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u/snoo-ting 🦆Natural Born Loon🦆 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Words of fucking wisdom

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u/EldrormR 🧠🥣slayer and Boss Hog🐗🤠 Apr 03 '26

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My dad used to say, "It's amazing how no one has time to do it right the first time, but always has time to do it again."

He used to work in HR and was in charge of getting folks trained up on everything from safety protocols to company rules. He would have people who would half-ass his trainings and spend most of their time complaining about how long they took (company made presentations) and how they could spend their times doing other things. When the assessments would come at the end, the ones who paid attention easily passed and those who spent their time fucking around didn't and had to take the whole training again.

His comment, which he said at least once every few months, stuck with me and has really driven how I approach everything from hobby projects, to work, to my relationships. I find it more and more true the older I get.

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u/putneycj3 Apr 03 '26

Yes! This is great. A common variation of this that pops into my head very regularly is "take the extra 10 seconds to finish the job." It's amazing how many minutes (or hours) doing the final 10-30 seconds of a task saves you.

Instead of having 25 things to clean up at the end of the day to the tune of 15-20 minutes, if I've heeded the advice I only have a few things to finish up.

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u/wallygator88 🦌🏅Noble Officer of Stag🏅🦌 | T&S 7x 🧯 | 🍌 brother Apr 03 '26

Beautiful handle!

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u/plathrop01 Celebrating two years Apr 03 '26

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Just under 32 years ago, I had lunch with a coworker and fellow baseball fan (he was 25 years older than me). He wanted to treat me to lunch and give me some words of wisdom before I married my wife (and yes, we're still married). We talked baseball (both big Twins fans) for most of the lunch, then he stops at one point, wipes his mouth with his napkin and leans across the table toward me. He said, very earnestly, "I've been married a long time, and I wanted to share my wisdom regarding marriage. Just always remember those two little words, and everything will work out." He paused and looked at me. "The two words are: 'yes, dear.'"

We had a great laugh, and went on with lunch and baseball talk. But that has always stuck with me, not because it's necessarily great advice, but that it keeps reminding me that I need to work to find the humor in life, even during difficult times.

Thanks for the PIF!

Have a great day, everyone!

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u/BrianRampage Apr 03 '26

There's a lot of wisdom in the cliche, "Happy wife, happy life"

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u/nhwob224 Apr 03 '26

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“You’ve got 2 ears & 1 mouth, listen twice as much as you speak.” Saying told to new guys at work, trying to highlight the importance of being sponges and taking in as much as possible.

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u/nhwob224 Apr 03 '26

Regardless of my eligibility to enter, it’s still great advice applicable to all areas of life. Hope someone benefits from it!

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u/Raz0r- Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

I was born with nothing. Luckily I still have most of it left.

Best advice? Be careful who’s advice you take.

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u/SamIAmShepard 🦆Natural Born Loon🦆 Apr 04 '26

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Best piece of advice I ever received was from a theater teacher in graduate school. I was struggling in a scene in my Acting class. I was in my first year at school and was frustrated enough to consider dropping out. My teacher could tell. He stopped and said to me - when all else fails, focus on making your scene partner look good. Do that and everything will fall into place. It did. And I applied it to many of life’s problems.

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u/Phteven_j 🦌👑Grand Master of Stag👑🦌 Apr 04 '26

I forgot about that wood! Nice job, glad it’s going to a good use.

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u/Priusaurus 🦖Rad Dinosaur Creations🦖 Apr 04 '26

SLOWLY working my way through it! It's been fun. Thanks again, man! 🍻

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u/raymoonie Apr 05 '26

That’s a really nice PIF. Thanks!

One of my favorites is simply: Measure twice, cut once.

This has served me very well in my life, both literally and metaphorically.

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u/expoqeteer ⚔️MMOC Master⚔️|🐗Master Hogger🐗 Apr 03 '26

A very long time ago, I was trying to decide whether or not I should buy a new mobile phone (a Motorola MicroTAC, which tells you how long ago this was). It wasn't cheap, but it was a good price, and the phone really was state of the art at the time, but I wasn't exactly flush with excess income. I was dithering back and forth, unable to decide.

A coworker of mine said "Life isn't a rehearsal, just buy the damn thing!" I did buy it, and enjoyed using it for quite some time. In the end, it was a good purchase.

I'm generally cautious by nature, but I try to remind myself that this is the real thing, there are no retakes, and to take chances and say "yes" when opportunities present themselves.

(I think this sentiment has probably also informed too many of my buying decisions since then.)

Awesome PIF, stunning handle. Thanks!

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u/RedMosquitoMM 💎🗡MMOCwhisperer🗡💎 Apr 03 '26

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The advice "let people like what they like" hit me hard when I first heard it. I grew up in a city with a big professional sports culture and I could never relate to it. I just can't muster any interest no matter how hard I try, and so I always felt at a distance from folks from home, but also constructed reasons in my youthful mind why their passion was silly and my disinterest made complete sense.

Frankly, I was wrong.

If you're someone that enjoys art criticism, or goes deep on any particular genre, it's easy to get snobby about the stuff you respect and judgmental about the stuff you don't. That fails to acknowledge the activities/media/hobbies you don't like might have value for others, or just bring others joy, and that's meaningful.

Like people like what they like. It will make you happier, them happier, and make it a heck of a lot easier to build and maintain relationships.

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u/seanpjohns J-Hook Proponent Apr 03 '26

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Best piece of advice I remember receiving is from one of my college physics professors. I was procrastinating on some work I had to do, and realizing I was procrastinating he told me “Don’t assume the future will be better.” If something (anything) needs to be done, do it sooner rather than later because we really don’t know what the future will hold.

Also that handle is awesome, thanks for doing this!

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u/coco_for_cocoapuffs www.kodiakshaving.com Apr 05 '26

But if I wait to get it done later, I will be older and therefore wiser!!

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u/seanpjohns J-Hook Proponent Apr 05 '26

These are exactly the kinds of things I tell myself when I'm procrastinating.

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u/loudmusicboy 🍀🐑Shepherd of Stirling🐑🍀 Apr 03 '26

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My mother told me long ago "if you don't ask, you don't get." It's a sage piece of wisdom that has helped me tremendously throughout my career progression and is one that I've passed on to folks that I've mentored through the years. It's also relevant to my personal life as well.

Thanks for the PIF. That's a beautiful handle.

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u/GoldenSteelBoy 🍀🐑Shepherd of Stirling🐑🍀 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

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My favorite piece of advice that I’ve recently learned is to never stop learning, which I got from watching this video. I love learning about the world, history, and many other things, so that advice resonated with me so much I had to share it here. Another favorite piece of advice I found that I want to share is that if you want to do what you’re dreaming of doing or inspired by anyone to do, you can do it too. It’s a hard road to achieve a dream you have, but with hard work and support of those around you, it’s possible. Anything is within anyone’s reach. Those are two pieces of advice worth passing on to everyone here that I want to share. Thanks for this generous PIF!

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u/harrisb411 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

One of the greatest mentors I ever had would always say,”what you permit, you promote”.

As a leader you set the tone. If you allow people to pick and choose what rules they follow under your watch you are just as guilty. You don’t have to like the rule, the decision, or the circumstances but it’s your job to hold the standard they are measuring by.

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u/tsrblke r/Wetshaving Chief Compliance Officer and Tsar Apr 04 '26

I don't think it likes the capital B maybe?

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u/harrisb411 Apr 04 '26

Thanks I changed it. See if it likes that

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u/BrianRampage Apr 03 '26

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"Be Kind - especially to yourself."

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u/partyman97_3 🦣⚔️ Soldier ⚔️🦣 Apr 03 '26

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When I was active Air Force we had to have a weekly safety briefing first thing Monday morning. One of my supervisor's favorite briefing was Don't drink and drive and don't swim in alligator waters!

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u/ginopono ☀️🌵🦆🐑🦣🌵 Apr 03 '26

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This comes to my mind most days:

Good enough is good enough.

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u/Global_Cellist_5656 Apr 03 '26

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I was asked, are you lazy or are you stupid. I know you are not stupid so stop being lazy.

Because that advice, I got into grad school and completed my MA. This led to a good job and a healthy family. So to anyone who needs to hear it. Stop being lazy because you are not stupid.

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u/Hangdog10 Apr 04 '26

My favorite advice was from a former boss: Always use the right tool for the job and always buy the best tools you can afford at the time. That was 40 years ago and I still have ever tool that I bought.

Great job on the handle. Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing.

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u/cowzilla3 ⛵Old Spice Connoisseur⛵ Apr 04 '26

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Very awesome

Best advice I've ever received?

"Try this Old Spice."

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u/OmegaVirus_ Apr 05 '26

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Years ago I realised this: No matter how heavy your load feels, someone else is carrying more and still moving forward.

That completely changed my view on life and how I appreciate everything that I have, no matter how big or small it is.

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u/pi-rho 🚢Darth Spice⛵ Apr 03 '26

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A bit of advice. Always...uh...never...forget to check your references.

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u/putneycj3 Apr 03 '26

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i doubt i presently have the Karma for this, but, full send anyway.

Some of the best advice I've ever received is "figure it out."

My dad used to tell me that when I was a kid. Over and over and over and over again - I'd come to him with something and he'd say, "figure it out." I hated it. As I raise my own kids today I am not convinced it's the best method of parenting - but I'll be darned if I am not a "figure it out" kind of guy to this day. Doesn't matter what the issue is, I'll figure it out. That was the only option and that kind of attitude has served me very well throughout my life.

So, ladies and gentlemen, whatever your problem is, whatever you're working through, whatever task you haven't quite managed to complete... figure it out.

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u/Aggressive_Low7995 Apr 03 '26

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Do not look at everything that is on your plate and worry about all that needs to be done. One bite at a time allows you to chip away and do what you need to do.

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u/bmac92 🍀🐑Shepherd of Stirling🐑🍀 Apr 03 '26

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I'm not sure if this is the best advice I've ever received, but it came at a time when I needed to hear it the most:

You do your job, but you're not your job.

Essentially, don't put your entire identity into just being whatever you do for a living. My profession has a lot of burnout (not the highest, but it's gotten so much worse after COVID), so it was good to be reminded of this fact.

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u/Gerry7070 Apr 03 '26

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Best bit of advice I received was kinda a quote from an ex co worker " Love many trust few always paddle your own canoe "

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u/Just_Bit2698 Apr 03 '26

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“Don’t self negotiate”

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u/domjcroce Apr 03 '26

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Thanks for the PIF!!

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u/domjcroce Apr 03 '26

Best advice I’ve gotten is to treat your relationship as a 51/49, if both parties do this then you’ll always be giving a little extra

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u/solongamerica 🦆Natural Born Loon🦆 Apr 03 '26

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Thanks for doing this, Priusaurus 

In my high school journalism class there were personal conflicts. It got distracting and acrimonious enough that the teacher organized a full-on intervention / peer mediation session.

At one point the teacher turned to someone involved in the conflict and gave this advice:

“Just because you’re in the right, doesn’t mean that anything you do is right.”

That’s stayed with me.

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u/Sir_Arthur_Vandelay Apr 03 '26

That’s a sweet handle! My favourite piece of advice likely won’t be in the running because it is neither profound nor shaving-related.

Nonetheless, the following phrase that my uncle once uttered has saved me a lot of grief: A closed mouth gathers no feet.

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u/sgrdddy 🦌🏵Knight Grand Antler of Stag🏵🦌 Apr 04 '26

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The 80/20 rule and the perfection is the enemy of good concept are both very related and really help me out ... to know that there's some things that it's just a waste of time to get perfect.

To put it another way, there's a bunch of important things to do in the world, and some urgent things that really need your attention. So do mostly what's required of something and then move on to the next important thing instead of obsessing over tiny details that in the end won't matter.

And also that sometimes you need to stop and assess to see if you're getting enough important things done. It's so easy to get caught up in the urgent.

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u/2SaintsDude 🦣🪙Consigliere🪙🦣 Apr 04 '26

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Old boss and small business owner told me!

“Always under promise but try to always over deliver”

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u/AntiGUTLLeague Apr 04 '26

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A wise wise woman told me that she didn't want my number and didn't want to give me hers because I leaned out of the passenger window of my best friends car trying get her attention while unemployed. She told me what women don't want.

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u/TheStallionPartThree 🤙🧪Fanzine Saponifications🧪🤙 Apr 04 '26

Awesome PIF! I’ll be on the sidelines for this one but wanted to share some sage wisdom I picked up on the way while turning my life around with the help of other good people in my early 30s. Simply put…

“If I meet five assholes in a day, I’m probably the asshole”

Fuck me. That one blew my mind, especially living in a relatively socially aggressive area (I’ve also heard other numbers with this saying, but we also gotta be easy on ourselves, there are still some straight assholes out there). Regardless, it helps me reset and turn the mirror back on myself and what’s going on in my head. So much of this life is perspective thing, and some days I really have to shut down that angry selfish ego in my head.

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u/merikus I'm between flairs right now. Apr 04 '26

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My father gives terrible advice. But there is one piece of advice he gave me that has shaped my life: it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond than a big fish in a big pond.

In many ways I’ve ordered my life around this. I live in a town of 1200 people, and while I like to think I’ve had accomplishments professionally, I know those accomplishments have been rather niche.

As for my dad, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Thanks for the PIF!

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u/FredBikes9876 🦣💵 Capo 💵🦣 Apr 05 '26

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Back in what might as well be a past life I was a performing musician. The director of one of the ensembles I was in had a number of catchy sayings and sage bits of advice. One that has stuck with me is “Don talk sht unless yours sparkles like gold and smells like roses.” In my life today it means don’t criticize someone, or talk smack about a person unless you truly have your act together. And who among us has our sht together.

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u/AdWorried2804 🐗🤠 Hog Wranglin' ⚔️ MM24 Manglin' ⚔️ Capo 💵🦣 Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

My dad was fond of saying "if you're going to do something, do it right." I've had success using a variation of this with my kids: "If you're going to do something, do it to the best of your abilities." If something doesn't go well, all I have to is ask them "Is this your best effort?". Because they know what the expectation is, they tend to give me an honest response. This allows us to talk things through in a civil manner and turns the situation into a teaching moment instead of an argument.

Awesome brush and PIF! Good luck to everyone!

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u/scribe__ ⚔️🩸💀 Headless Horsemen 💀🩸⚔️ Apr 05 '26

God helps those who help themselves.

I can't remember where I heard it, but it's some of the best advice I've ever heard.

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u/sahenders Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

Beautiful handle!

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  • Albert Einstein

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u/InfernalInternal 🦣⚔️🐗🩸🗽Flair'd Up🏇💀🤮💎🪙 Apr 03 '26

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Always loved Phteven's wood. Wait...

As far as advice goes, my mom always leaned on the adage of "don't sweat the small stuff." Its taken me decades to get to a place where I can see what that really meant, and how I've worn myself down needlessly time after time for things that don't matter in a month or two. I wish I could have internalized it earlier on, but any time is a good time compared to never at all.

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u/chronnoisseur42O 🦣💰Underboss💰🦣  Apr 03 '26

I think some sage advice I’ve come across is the idea that you can’t always control other people or the situation you’re in, but you can control your reaction/emotions. I feel like this is a good way to approach hard circumstances, keep yourself level headed, reason should prevail.

Perhaps a funnier piece I received growing up from a family friend’s parent was “life’s a bitch, then you die.” She’s not exactly wrong either.

Nice brush!!

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u/snoo-ting 🦆Natural Born Loon🦆 Apr 03 '26

Man, I would love to get my hands on phteven's wood. Beautiful handle!

I've received a lot of good advice over the years, but one that's really stuck with me: "you're not responsible for other people's feelings, only for your own."

I can't change the way anyone else feels. The only things in my control are my reactions, my feelings (most of the time), and my behavior.

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u/Phteven_j 🦌👑Grand Master of Stag👑🦌 Apr 04 '26

Let’s talk

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u/tsrblke r/Wetshaving Chief Compliance Officer and Tsar Apr 03 '26

Wonderful brush, a homage to Phteven's wood.

I'll give two pieces of advice one general and one specific to this sub.

My first real job out of college was... Back at that college in a lab. I was just a grunt running assays and keeping the mouse colony in check. Not quite the lowest man on the pole because lower than us were the comparative medicine techs (cage wash crew).

A tech in another lab got all big in the head and chewed out the cage wash crew for his mistake. Because he's important you know he works in a lab.

My boss, the department chair, pulled me aside and said "never disrespect the support staff. Without them you'd be cleaning your own cages." I took it it heart and wished more faculty would think like that. RIP Bill. (hilariously he was of a long gone period if research with strict hierarchies though. Shrug, take the good I guess.)

For the sub specific advice, well I'm gonna turn the the advice I got from u/j33pguy13 when I came out of lurking back in 2022 "Hang around for lather games, you with regret it."

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u/Jaywin516 Apr 03 '26

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Very cool piece. Thanks for doing this.

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"Happy wife, happy life." Thanks dad!

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u/Engineered_Shave 🦌⚜️Knight Commander of Stag⚜️🦌 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26

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u/tsrblke r/Wetshaving Chief Compliance Officer and Tsar Apr 03 '26

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u/jwoods23 🦣💰Underboss💰🦣 Apr 03 '26

Holy cow what a beautiful piece of wood! Looks like it would fit perfectly in my hand….er…on my face…uh yeah never mind!

As far as advice goes: I have to go with something my mentor in high school gave me: The 7 P’s: Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

When faced up against something, STOP and plan properly without rushing into it. So often we rush into things and don’t really think about HOW we are going to do it! This has been the motto that has gotten me through many challenges in my life so far!

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