"- Exceptionally few opinions have any value. Very likely most of the people you know, they're not experts at what you're working on, they probably do not know

"- Exceptionally few opinions have any value. Very likely most of the people you know, they're not experts at what you're working on, they probably do not know better than you, their advice is likely worthless; do not take their advice, do not seek their advice as it pertains to the specifics of your area of work. Seeking their advice on broader life-business things or generic business issues, sure, that might make sense. Only seek advice from people that are experts - or as close to it as you can get - on the thing you're seeking advice on. Everyone has an opinion, so if you ask someone, the odds are they'll give it to you, even if they shouldn't due to their own ignorance. People are typically terrible at self-censoring when it comes to throwing around advice about subjects they know little about." Yup this is my opinion too. Took me way too long to realize it.