Surprising that culture isn't mentioned once in the article. Advice does work, and people follow it, but only in professions, cultures, places where people have

Surprising that culture isn't mentioned once in the article. Advice does work, and people follow it, but only in professions, cultures, places where people have a certain respect for experience. Skilled musicians with good mentors almost certainly listen to advice, because most of them very early had to figure out how to get rid of all their self learned terrible habits and then really paid attention because that sucks. People in cultures with respect for seniority listen to advice, people who have served in the military tend to listen to advice. I don't know who the author is but given some of their other articles I suspect they're surrounded by a lot of people who don't listen to advice... because that's exactly what they've been told since they've grown up (ironically maybe the first and last advice they listened to, technically). If you're in a culture that devalues mentorship, authority of teachers and where mistakes aren't really considered mistakes until you've made them yourself it's not that surprising that nobody ever takes advice.