Rejecting advice comes quite naturally to most people, especially if they feel that following the advice given will lead to ends that they find emotionally unappealing. I'd venture to say that rejecting advice (combined with feeling qualified to give it) is a fundamental bias in human nature. We know our lives better than anyone else, right, and our wants and desires and outcomes?
The point is that, if someone is taking the time to give some nugget of advice, they might have thought about it and might have access to a "you" that "you" don't actually quite know well. That's certainly not always true, but, if the advice comes from someone who has navigated an experience that you know theoretically, the odds are they have something to say that you should listen to.
I certainly have found that out the hard way.
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