What price did the person advising you pay to get that knowledge
Someone once suggested to me that I could pitch three prospects per week as if it was some sort of basic mathematics equation. This person had a good salary, very stable in income. He had never spent a Tuesday afternoon trying to work out if airtime was more valuable than getting lunch. Their advice was not exactly wrong but it simply lacked any level of experiential knowledge.
I understand now that this type of unsolicited advice given to comfortable people is a completely separate type of advice from what true advice that can help you through your struggles looks like, and the only reason I even tolerate it at all is out of the respect I have for people naturally. The funny thing is people that don't know what they're talking about can sound more confident than those who don't.
It was while having a dinner one evening at a restaurant that this realization truly got to me. I was not in the context of the moment, but it really clicked. At this point in time, I recognized that the only people who have ever impacted my life had done so by going through some variation of what I went through to get to where I am today.
They were not successful or people with high credentials. They were all lost, confused and now have found their way through that confusion. These people knew what they were saying and knew what I was going through.
This is two completely different things.
So now, when I receive unsolicited advice from anyone, I don't discount it, but I ask myself in my mind, What did this cost you? I am not asking about money, the only question I am asking is for purposes of comfort or certainty. If the answer is anything other than zero I will listen and then perhaps follow through if I understand the person.
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