Day 189 - Advice is like yesterday's lottery ticket number https://golifelog.com/posts/advice-is-like-yesterdays-lottery-ticket-number-1625729393032
Advice is seriously over-rated. Especially following seemingly good advice from success stories.
It’s like trying to win the lottery by buying the same winning number from yesterday. It worked yesterday, but it would not work today and most likely wouldn’t work in the future too.
Almost all advice is contextual to the time, place and a network of factors interplaying to produce the result. Even luck.
So here’s a crazy idea:
What if I tried not taking anyone’s advice for a year?
Wouldn’t it be an interesting experiment to stop reading startup or indie hacker success porn, and just act based on my own situation, on real-world feedback and data?
If I were to start on a blank slate without leaning on anyone’s advice, how would I go about it?
It’s like trying to win the lottery by buying the same winning number from yesterday. It worked yesterday, but it would not work today and most likely wouldn’t work in the future too.
Almost all advice is contextual to the time, place and a network of factors interplaying to produce the result. Even luck.
So here’s a crazy idea:
What if I tried not taking anyone’s advice for a year?
Wouldn’t it be an interesting experiment to stop reading startup or indie hacker success porn, and just act based on my own situation, on real-world feedback and data?
If I were to start on a blank slate without leaning on anyone’s advice, how would I go about it?