I stopped listening to other peoples opinions. People give advice that has: 1. Bias 2. Ego and pride baked in to justify their own lives 3. Fear that you may

I stopped listening to other peoples opinions. People give advice that has: 1. Bias 2. Ego and pride baked in to justify their own lives 3. Fear that you may succeed in a way that invalidates their life decisions To harp more on this, some people's social status is built on what is basically lies. "I'm an entrepreneur", when in fact they have never made a dime from their own business. Or, "I am a genius programmer", but are really just a mediocre mid level dev at Google. But their life partner, and close friends may sustain and build upon that false reality. Understanding these dynamics earlier in life would have gotten me very far