Take my advice.. then ignore it
As an entrepreneur, one of the most important things is listening to people. I’ve met a lot of interesting people that have a lot of interesting ideas and get a lot of satisfaction by making sure that I know that they know a lot. What do I do? I listen. (That was a lot of “a lot”’s back there.. stay focused) Most people that you talk to are dead wrong most of the time, but there is value in what they have to say. It’s a numbers game really. If 1% of ideas that you hear are worthwhile, isn’t it worth hearing 99 bad ideas to get to that good one?
My biggest issue is that I’ve already thought about what they are lecturing about so I know why it is feasible or why it can’t be done. When I was a youth.. just a few months ago… I would often chastise these advice-givers in my mind. But now that I’m an adult (almost 26 years old… boo hoo), I listen a lot more. It doesn’t hurt to listen to the advice and THEN ignore it but it’s a disaster to ignore it from the get-go.
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