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The problem is that successful people can also give bad advice.

A common one is the Boomer advice of walking into a place, asking to see a manager, and talking with them about getting a job. That strategy might have worked in the 80’s, but it doesn’t work today.

Rereading the post, it isn’t that you should ignore the advice of people who failed, but you need to recognize what kind of “advice” you’re getting.

Someone can fail and give you good advice, but the advice described isn’t that.

Viagra was originally meant to treat hypertension.