Most professional advice is like relationship advice, people extrapolate something that went wrong for them into general cases but that rarely directly applies

Most professional advice is like relationship advice, people extrapolate something that went wrong for them into general cases but that rarely directly applies to someone who is not you in that very similar situation. And the advice that seems to work consistently gets so generic that is almost useless. Something like "be thoughtful, try to do the right thing and reflect back to see how it went" doesn't write blog posts or sells books!