Regarding the guy that gets rich in five years, one of the tweets that you had on the cutting room floor was

avoid people who got rich quickly. They're just giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.

This is generally true of advice anyway, which is it's back to Scott Adam's systems not goals.

If you ask a specific person what work for them very often it's just like they're reading out

the exact set of things that work for them which may not be applicable for you. They're just

beating you, they're winning lottery ticket numbers. It's a little glib. There is something to be

learned from them, but you can't just take their exact circumstance and map it onto yours.

The best founders I know they listen and read to everyone, but then they ignore everybody and they

make up their own mind. They have their own internal model of how to apply things to their situation

and they do not hesitate to discard information. If you survey enough people all the advice will

cancel the zero. So you do have to have your own point of view and when something is set in your

way you have to very quickly decide is that true? Is that true outside of the context of what that

person applied it in? Is it true in my context? And then do I want to apply it? You have to reject

most advice, but you have to listen to and read enough of it to know what to reject and what to

accept. Even in this podcast you should examine everything. If something does not feel true to you,

put it down set it aside. If too many things seem untrue, delete this podcast.

I think the most dangerous part of taking advice is that the person that gave it to you is not

going to be around to tell you when it doesn't apply any longer. Yeah, I view the purpose of advice

as a little different than most people. I just view it as helping me have anecdotes and maxims

that I can then later recall when I have my own direct experience and say, ah, that's what that

person meant. 90% of my tweets are actually just maxims that I carve for myself that are then

little mental hooks to remind me when I'm in that situation again, like, oh, I'm the one who tweeted,

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