> Everyone around you seem to know how you should lead your life, listen to only those whose life is similar to what you aspire, filter out the rest. Well put.

> Everyone around you seem to know how you should lead your life, listen to only those whose life is similar to what you aspire, filter out the rest. Well put. I thought about this a bit when collecting advice on next career steps from a range of acquaintances and contacts earlier this year - I realized that it made almost no difference the level of detail/context I provided to them about my situation - they invariably ended up suggesting something in line with what they wished they would've done themselves. So my way of handling that was just like you wrote - working backwards and prioritizing the feedback from people whose path seems to be in line with my own and heavily de-prioritizing the rest regardless of who they were. > Do things that matter to you. Also, simple but true.