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As a 21 year old, 21 year olds are terrible at giving advice this is a generality. You omitted the next sentence where experience / results were presented. I w

As a 21 year old, 21 year olds are terrible at giving advice this is a generality. You omitted the next sentence where experience / results were presented. I would ignore most 21 year olds advice about snowboarding, but i would listen to everything Shaun White had to say at 15. There’s also the successful-bias problem, where you think you’re successful because of whatever you did, and that there aren’t other ways another generality (perhaps you're talking about survivor bias). in any case, these are general statements that may be true statistically but unless you tie them to the context of OP there is little relevance to this discussion

kortilla 8y ago
>year olds advice about snowboarding, but i would listen to everything Shaun White had to say at 15. You missed the point. Young people, especially extremely talented ones, are terrible at giving advice. They don’t have nearly enough experience to recognize biases and will give out worthless platitudes like “always practice 6 hours a day” when the real key to their success is mastering some fundamental technique at a young age that they don’t even understand. It’s like chefs that recite recipes with “a pinch of X”, “a splash of Y”, and “a sprinkling of Z”. This is completely useless to amateurs and is only marginally useful to professionals that might be able to deconstruct how the ingredients interact to get precise ratios.