There is a lot of bad advice about almost everything people are interested in: learning, nutrition, exercise, personal finances, career development, how to code, how to write, relationships, running a business...
Some of it is survivorship bias - often influenced by privilege/luck - being confused as skill or insight. Some of it is people who aren't very reflective, scientific or logical in their thinking making poor guesses or estimates with a lot of unmerited confidence. Some of it is more cynical: if somebody is buying, they're selling.
As a civilisation we still aren't great at root cause analysis of success, it seems.
Another problem with advice is that in lots of cases the person giving the advice has absolutely no skin in the game. If the advice is bad, itβs only the advice-taker that suffers.
Exactly. There can be many, many reasons why something worked for someone else but won't work for you. There are so many variables at play. Plus, a lot of advice isn't individualized.
