Every list like this should probably end with a final line: Take all advice anyone gives you with a large grain of salt. In the end, you are the one who will

Every list like this should probably end with a final line: Take all advice anyone gives you with a large grain of salt. In the end, you are the one who will be making the decisions that change your life in one way or the other. If you can't trust yourself to make the right decision, then who can you trust? At the very least, you'll have noone but yourself to blame if you happen to make the wrong one. Those are the mistakes you learn the most from, by the way.