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Taking Advice

Who would you rather take advice from - someone who has succeeded in life or someone who has failed?

This, of course, depends on your own definition of success and what you value more than anything. However, more often than not, those who have gone to the top of their field, gained the most recognition, or made the most money are deemed the successful ones. They are the ones given the platform to speak and advise those aspiring to emulate them. This does not necessarily mean that they are best placed to be giving out advice. Perhaps it's the ones who have failed in their endeavours that possess the best advice, knowing what they did wrong and what they would have done in hindsight, in order to not repeat the same mistakes. They do say that failure is the stepping stone towards success, and that you learn more from your failures than your successes.

Successful people may be completely ignorant to how easy they made it look, just like the maths professor who can no longer empathise with the novice maths student struggling with simple fractions. Be wary of who you get your advice from.

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  1. Anonymous2 January 2021 at 01:06

    That was when I realised I just gotta keep doing shit
    I was looking around for a long time
    Looking at other people like they were doing shit right
    And I was doing shit wrong
    And then I realised nobody actually knows what the fuck they're doing
    But the people that succeed are the people that just keep doing it

    (Nostalgia - Cal Scruby)

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