A short solo monologue (YouTube) advising listeners to evaluate others' recommendations by considering the advisor's incentives, recognizing that advice often reflects the advisor's personal lens, and treating recommendations as testable input rather than commands. The speaker gives an example (coaches who sell coaching) and urges running experiments before following advice.
Everyone sees the world through their own lens. Their upbringing, their fears, their culture, their trauma, their wins, their losses. So when they say something like, you should quit your job. You should never take that risk. They're not thinking about what works for you. They're relaying their own experience and telling you to copy it. Before you even consider someone's advice, I want you to ask yourself a question. How does this person benefit? They follow their advice. For example, a coach says you need coaching. Well, do they sell coaching? Well? Yes. They benefit by telling you you need coaching. So you gotta be very careful. My advice is to test advice. Don't just obey it blindly. Run experiments. Use the advice as input, not orders.
