The article makes a fair point which I'm having a hard time agreeing with based on anecdotal evidence. A lot of my habits and hobbies stemmed from other people

The article makes a fair point which I'm having a hard time agreeing with based on anecdotal evidence. A lot of my habits and hobbies stemmed from other people giving me advice. This includes the physical activities I do, meditation, certain technologies and ways of learning and so on. I am incredibly grateful to the people who introduced me to those things. I will gladly give out similar advice to others. Advice from other people rather than summarised data and their personal experience has been invaluable for my personal growth. I think it's important to acknowledge there are a lot of unknowns and give advice in a personal way "this worked for me" vs. "this is how it should be done". I think that if advice is given from a place of "here's something cool to maybe try" and not "here's what you should do" then it's pretty great - people just tend to like absolutes a lot better since they're simpler. Edit: Not to mention the "You should check out this programming thing, it's pretty cool" which led to a fulfilling career which I love.