I'm not taking health advice from someone who is unhealthy
I'm not taking financial advice from someone who is broke
I'm not taking marriage advice from someone who is divorced
I'm not taking life advice from someone who is unhappy.
Your degree does not change my mind.
Devils advocate:
Some of the best coaches in American sports have been dudes that weren’t really that good when they played or never played in the league they coached in.
Not disagreeing with you. Just pointing out that it’s not simply white and black. Data is data and it’s up to you to decide what has value and what doesn’t. Writing off data because it doesn’t fit some archetype you have predetermined is objectively sub-optimal 🤷♂️
Knowing the game and not growing to 6'5" 300 lbs is a pretty niche exception
You're right tho
Generals ain’t the best combat soldiers, etc. Knowledge and Practice/application are two different things that are not invalidated when not accompanied by the other.
Intellectuals/academics historically play an important role in society (provided that they’re not captured) but aren’t necessarily “doers”. Society needs both to function optimally. It’s good to be proud of work but work isn’t everything. Strategy and design optimize workers and make them more efficient
Cautionary tales, though. Sometimes people that have made mistakes have great wisdom to share.
You're right about degrees. I do not trust doctors.
I do not trust financial advisors.
They both have proved to be wrong about many things.
Well said.
I'll take "don't do this" advice from people who learned from failure
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Agreed but this also reminds me of the time Milton Friedman said “are you going to say that you don’t want a doctor to treat you for cancer because he himself has not had cancer”
Source:
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So you are unwilling to learn from other people's mistakes?
I'll take "don't do this" advice from someone who has failed
Marriage advice from someone who is divorced and happily remarried is probably the best advice you can get.
Marriage advice from someone who’s been divorced multiple times… dicey
Great nuance and something I was thinking about after
Would you take coaching advice from Bill Billicheck or Pete Carroll since they were not successful early in their careers?
I agree with the financial advice.
Disagree with the marital advice, without knowing the context of their failed relationship.
Why not ?
They may tell what NOT to do
Everyone can be a teacher
Choose the advise that works for you
Unless it’s cautionary “yeah really don’t do X, messed me up real bad” kind of advice
🤝
Facts
Bur some might have learned a lot from a divorce. 😜
"don't do this advice" is an exception
Good point. I like that approach shared widely by Ray Dalio - trust believable people. Ray Defines such people as someone who achieved success in certain area couple of times (I.e. 3) and - more importantly - can describe why it happened .
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I posted this as a general rule of thumb for the no's
My general rule of them for the yes is to only take advice from people who have what I want in that specific domain.
If someone is more healthy than me, I'll look to take their advice on health.
If someone is richer than me, I'll look to take their advice on finance.
If someone has a happy marriage, I'll look to take their advice on marriage.
If someone seems happier than me I'll look to take their advice on life.
Quite straight forward, I like it.
Of course that is oversimplification and in reality people may be lucky in some areas and not know why things happen exactly…
Still good rule of thumb.
That's all it is is a rule of thumb
Helps when you're on the fence about something someone said
In that theme the nostr:nprofile1qqs2gndun24r2utk5l20tscsdprw5zttvm0qk58w8xhl2ja2kmzt7jcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsvp7tjh what would be your advice to me. You use Nostr for a long while. I craved to find people that value freedom for a long while. I recently joined Nostr. Any advice ?
Live in the comments section to meet people and connect. There is no good discovery mechanism here and only a few accounts wouldn't kill for a few extra notifications or a similar connection
take financial advice from a banker
take health advice from pfizer
Take merriage advice.. kidding it is an affordable
Take life advice from a DJ 😂
