Asking for advice is a good thing.
But to make sure it’s useful, we should run the advice we receive through a few filters before acting on it.
One of those filters is the Lottery Test: is the advice genuinely helpful, or is it just the numbers on someone else’s winning lottery ticket?
The recipe for success for one person is rarely the same for another; the probability of the same numbers coming up twice is infinitesimally small.
The advice giver’s life, and that of our own, are unique concoctions of talent, circumstance, privilege, bias, determination, habits, support networks, belief, and luck.
So if someone gives you a 3-point plan and is adamant that it’ll work for you because it worked for them, beware of that advice.
It’s good to seek advice, but don’t bet the farm using someone else’s winning numbers.
H/T Naval Ravikant