{"id":13853,"date":"2019-09-22T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2019-09-22T06:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:26:41","slug":"howard-sterns-million-dollar-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/howard-sterns-million-dollar-paragraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Stern&#8217;s Million-Dollar Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ways you\u2019ll know your emails are not only being read, but having some sort effect on the psyches of your audience is, certain wannabe overachievers will start giving you unsolicited advice.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always annoying getting it.<\/p>\n<p>And, the advice is also always not only 99% wrong, given without context or bothering to gather facts, but massively wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Or, even better, defiled.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Stern once addressed this topic perfectly on his show.<\/p>\n<p>Some dork called in giving him unsolicited advice.<\/p>\n<p>And, when Stern told him it wasn\u2019t necessary, the guy started getting offended.<\/p>\n<p>Stern\u2019s reply?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m telling you your feedback is irrelevant. For my entire career I didn\u2019t ask people their opinion on my show. I don\u2019t care what you think. 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