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Reject Most Advice
Most advice is people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers. • The best founders listen to everyone but make up their own mind 0:00 • Advice is maxims you can recall later, when you get your own experience 1:29 Transcript: http://nav.al/reject-advice
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There is usually something you can learn from everyone, but particular circumstances play a big role, and most of the advice is probably not applicable to your exact situation.
The best founders listen and read to everyone, and then ignore everybody and make up their own mind.
Examine everything. Have your own point of view, and use your internal model to process the new information that you receive.
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On Reject Most Advice, Naval Ravikant says the dangerous part of taking advice is that the person who gave it will not be around to tell you when it no longer applies. He uses advice differently. For him it is a set of anecdotes and maxims he can recall when his own experience finally matches, and then say, that is what that person meant. About 90 percent of his tweets, he says, are maxims he wrote for himself, small hooks such as: if you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day. Without the underlying experience, those lines are just quotes. With it, they are pointers back to principles he already lived.
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