Listening to someone's advice and thinking, “Yay! That's what I'm doing!” is no different than listening to the next person and concluding, “Shit, I'm doing the wrong thing.”
Ultimately, someone advising you on how to do something is someone telling you their lottery numbers. Their numbers are tied to context, industry, background, timing, and many other variables.
Their numbers might work for you (or maybe not). But there’s ultimately no reliable way to know if their advice is worth considering.
What’s more reliable, though, is reality.
Testing, iterating, and checking the results for oneself. Out in the field.
Listening to advice might as well be the equivalent of religion. Fixing chaos through a narrative that clears the fog of uncertainty.
That surely sounds nice, but a true epistemological approach might prove more reliable over time.
Develop your own knowledge. Find your own explanations. And keep them to yourself. They are uniquely yours.
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