Regarding the guy that gets rich in five years. One of the tweets that you had on The Cutting Room floor was avoid people who got rich quickly. They're just giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.
This is generally true of advice anyway, which is its back to Scott Adams systems not goals. If you ask a specific person what work for them very often. It's just like the reading out the exact set of things that work for them, which may not be applicable for you. They're just beating you their winning lottery ticket numbers. It's a little glib there is something to be learned from them, but you can't just take the exact circumstance and map it onto yours the best Founders. I know they listen and read to everyone but then they ignore everybody and they make up their own mind. They have their own internal model of how to apply things to their situation and they do not hesitate to discard information. If you survey enough people all the advice will cancel the zero so you do have to have your own point of view.
And when something is sent your way you have to very quickly decide is that true is that true outside of the context of what that person applied in is it true in my context? And then do I want to apply it you have to reject most advice but you have to listen to and read enough of it to know what to reject and what to accept even in this podcast. You should examine everything if something does not feel true to you put it down set it aside. If too many things seem untrue delete this podcast.
I think the most dangerous part of taking advice is that the person that gave it to you is not going to be around to tell you when it doesn't apply any longer
yet. I view the purpose of advice as a little different than most people. I just view it as helping me have anecdotes and Maxim's that I can then later recall when I have my own direct experience and say oh that's what that person meant. 90% of my tweets are actually just Maxim's that I car for myself that are then little mental hooks.
Remind me when I'm in that situation again, like oh, I'm the one who tweeted if you can't see yourself working with someone for life, then don't work with them for a day. So as soon as I know that this person is not going to be someone that I'm going to be working with ten years from now, then I've just heard extricated myself in that relationship or just not investing that much more effort into it. So I use my tweets and other people's tweets as Maxim's that help compress my own learnings and be able to recall them. These are the brain space is finite you find it neurons. So you can almost think of these as pointers addresses mnemonics to help you remember deep-seated principles where you have the underlying experience to back it up. If you don't have the underlying experience then it just reads like a collection of quotes. It's like, it's cool. It's inspirational for a moment. Maybe make a nice poster out of it, but then you forget it and move on. So all of these are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge.
