Be choosy about advice

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Not all advice is worth following

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0:33.6	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:39.5	Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:46.1	Today's tip is to be choosy about who you get advice from.
0:51.2	You want guidance from people who are experts, not from those who are struggling with a topic
0:57.1	they're giving advice about, or who don't truly know much about it.
1:03.1	There's a great scene in the 1980s movies say anything when John Kusek's character is upset
1:08.5	about his love life. At a gas station he runs into cool guys from his high school, who offer him lots
1:15.6	of advice. He mulls over what they say, and then realizes that they are giving him advice about
1:22.7	dating while they are hanging out in the parking lot of a gas station. If you guys know so much
1:29.5	about women, he basically asks them, how come you're at the gas and sip on a Saturday night,
1:35.4	completely alone, drinking beers with no women anywhere? It's a good question.
1:41.5	There are so many people in our daily lives who are ready to offer advice, not to mention
1:48.0	an internet full of influencers. Some of these people are about as qualified to offer advice
1:55.1	as those guys at the gas station. So whenever you are weighing a piece of advice,
2:01.5	consider who you are getting it from. Are they experiencing their lives in a way that you
2:07.4	would like to experience yours? Have they solved the problem that you are trying to solve?
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