A short YouTube monologue by Omar Zenhom advising listeners to be selective about whose advice they follow. The speaker's main claim: only take advice from people who have done what you want to do, because most advice is projection of the advisor's experiences, fears, and constraints rather than guidance rooted in the listener’s context, goals, and constraints.
Only take advice from people who have done what you want to do. Most people aren't giving you advice based on what's best for you. They're giving you advice based on what they would do in your shoes. But here's the issue. They're not in your shoes. They're in their shoes with their experience and their fears and their baggage. And that's not helpful. The real key here is that people don't give advice for your benefit. What they're saying is not rooted in your context, in your goals, in your constraints. It's them projecting their worldview onto your situation. So it's very important to be very critical about who you are taking advice from. So who do you take advice from then?
