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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

30: Be Careful Who You Take Advice From [Five Minute Friday]

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Be careful who you're taking advice from. This one started with a tweet from David that asked: "Has the person giving you advice achieved the results you seek? Be careful with whose advice you follow." So we're kicking off a new format: Five Minute Friday. Something quick to take you into the weekend. Join the community of Seeking Wisdom listeners at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's five minute Friday here on Seeking Wisdom.

0:13.3

Friday, let's get it.

0:15.0

A new little format we're going to do.

0:17.5

Some are to just take you into the weekend.

0:19.9

And today's topic is all about advice. Be careful

0:23.9

who you take advice from. So this is someone you told me last week. I shared a little someone

0:28.8

you said, this is a lesson. You got to start to learn. You need to be careful whose advice

0:33.5

you take. Right? What's the framework for taking advice? Give me the... This is a good one. This is hard.

0:40.6

The, you know, everyone wants to give advice, so you need to be careful whose advice you take.

0:47.5

You need to make sure that the person you're getting advice from has actually delivered results

0:52.8

in the area that you're asking that you need help in

0:56.3

or you're asking advice for and that's rarely the case so like you're not going to ask your boy

1:02.0

who is broke dead broke for financial advice right but that dead broke friend of yours probably is

1:08.0

giving you financial advice right it's it's it's this is related to

1:11.7

another thing yeah which is like this whole um what you call you called it knowers seekers

1:17.3

and masters right it kind of relates to that right everybody's out there giving advice but the best

1:23.1

people really say yep i got you but you really, really take to heart the advice of the

1:28.4

people that you want to be like role models.

1:30.2

Role models.

1:31.0

So you're, if you want to get, if you want to get better at something, go seek out the person

1:36.1

or persons who are achieving results that are 10 times what you're trying to achieve.

1:42.4

And you go to those people and you try to find them, whether it's through books,

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