Episode 568: Who Should You Really Be Taking Advice From?

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just something we really appreciate, right? Right, Shawnee. And for those of you who do listen, we have Shawnee the foil. Hello. Joining us. And I really wanted to explore a topic that I've been thinking a lot about, especially because of social media. And that is like the whole concept and idea around advice. Everybody is an advice giver. If, you know,

the more you scroll with Instagram, I mean, every second real is someone rolling out advice,

which got me really annoyed because I feel like that has become like the new, like the new, like ether we're living in. Everyone's an expert. Everybody's a guru. Everyone knows everything about everything, which is just such garbage. And I wanted to talk about this because it's impossible for everybody to know everything to be an expert in everything. Like and, you know, people have to have more discernment of where they're seeking out advice from.

And this goes with everything in life. It is business. It is personal. It is everything. So I wanted to talk with this. I read a couple articles recently about the fact that I am not the only one who feels this way. You could believe it. I'm actually very upset about the fact that this has become such a trend and a thing in ethos about everyone being an expert in a guru, because if people don't have the wherewithal to know, then they're really getting advice from

the wrong people who have no business in the world giving you advice. So like, if you are a good someone who is seeking true advice from somebody, make sure that the person that you're talking

“to has done whatever that thing is before. And there's other like things that you should”

that should qualify you as an expert, right? Because it's actually, I think that advice actually expires. There's a finite amount of time and characteristics that actually think that that that advice even qualifies. Once you agree, I think that's exactly how almost every single millennial and Gen Z feels when their parents instruct them to just buy a house, settle down, do what they did, get a steady job. And it's like absolutely ridiculous advice for this economy

and for this world. We're in a different time. And the average homeowner back in the day was like 20 something years old. The average homeowner now is literally their 40s. That's a crazy difference in the stats and it's only in a few decades time span that that difference has occurred. So like the advice that a lot of people give so many younger generations, I just don't think they realize it doesn't apply. And that's also why I feel so, I feel so passionate about the idea that the people

whether it be that they're younger or that they're just like really aware of what's happening. So you know, it's very interesting that you said that because one of the points that I was going to talk about where to get advice from is exactly that if you're seeking advice from someone and they obviously should be someone that is done whatever that thing is that they've done before. But also when did they do that thing, right? If they did that thing, whatever that is,

30 years ago or 20 years ago, the game has changed so much that their advice has become null and void. Absolutely. That's the point. Like if you are someone who started a business 30 years ago, but and you're someone who's actually starting a technology company that now has

AI abilities and all these other things that we never even had back then, maybe that person's

opinion and experience is limited to what the world had to offer back then. That's so loooly. Right. So everything basically does have a shelf life, even business advice. Yeah, my problem with Shark Tank is I feel like a lot of times the advice that they give is so

“out of touch with the current reality and that's why the sharks that I like are the ones who I”

feel like get today, like Richard Branson, whatever I loved when he was on there. I just thought everything he said was like, I was like, yeah, all right, I feel bad. You know what I mean? Like he just made sense. But you get some of these comments from what's his face, the guy who be careful. He's all the way over. What's his not not Kevin. He's drives me crazy. Never gets a better.

Yeah, he always offers people deals and he never gets them because he's notorious for backing

out of deals after the show. So a lot of people never want to commit to him. Really. But I also find that a lot of times the stuff he says is so out of touch with like today and it's just it's so apparent. Like you're not building that same company today. There's no chance, you know. That's the thing like especially with like internet marketing and digital marketing and all these other elements. So you're not selling just a widget in the mom post or so it's very, very different.

But that goes with everything. Like it's not just about a cross of boredom. It helps help every thing. It's everything. Everything. Food. Food. Everything. Self-help is an area that just drives me freaking bananas. How everybody is a self-help expert. You know that recently, I just changed my bio on my Instagram because people were, you know, like it was people would refer to me. So I then I refer to myself in my bio as an expert, right? Like either I'm a wellness expert, a fitness expert,

a business marketing guru. Whatever those things are that people would tell me and then I would put that in, not because I believe it, but because that was the vernacular that was used. And after like being at this place where I'm getting so bombarded with all this bullshit of everyone being this expert, I'm like, I don't want to be in that pool anymore. Because who am I? I'm one person.

I'm no expert. You know, like I'm just a person who basically does a lot of trial and error and

“figures things out. So if you want to ask me advice on something, it's my opinion for the information”

that I know at this moment, given my experience. But bio means I'm no expert in anyway. And the funny thing is I also think that most people who've reached a lot of success in a lot in different areas, they didn't even know at the time what they held they were doing. But it was only after hindsight and many, many years later, right, that they started to connect the dots on like what works, what didn't work. There are a few jobs motto. Right. So like nobody's really an expert in anything.

And also, so, but with that being said, it is important to be discerning. And when you are asking people for advice, like make sure not only that they've done it before in the realm of what you're doing, but when they did it, and also be careful and very cautious of people who think they and say they're an expert in a lot of different areas, like the same people who write a bunch of books. What? Like, so now you're an expert, like you're an expert in sales, you're an expert in this,

like, to me, it's pick a lane and then like work on that, you can't be an expert in everything.

“So like, that's what I find a lot of times that I'm noticing. I just think it, it also, like,”

advice has to resume with you. Well, it takes you great to solve. But you have to be able to, not just a certain who is coming from, but different people will give, I mean, like for example, like very close friends of mine, right? Sometimes they give me great advice and sometimes they give me really shitty advice. And it's up to me to be able to listen to what somebody is saying and decide for myself whether or not I actually feel like that resonates in a way. Like, do I feel like that

is going to work in this situation? Are they coming from a place of experience? Are they coming from a place? Like, even if somebody has done what they say that they've done, maybe they didn't away. I don't want to do, right? Maybe they've gone about it in a route that's not for me. So you have to be able to assess everything that's being pulled to you and actually filter it through your own mind, because just someone tells you something that maybe it's going to be coming from a perfect

source. Maybe they are an expert in that area. Maybe they're recently too. Maybe what they say just isn't for you. Well, that's really a good point. And that's why a lot of times you should

path is different and what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. I wanted to just finish what I would my point before because I don't think it was super concise, sorry, was that it's so it's hard enough to be an expert in one thing, let alone being expert in a lot of

“things. And you have to take it with a great assault. And when there are people out there who are”

gurus and experts who are like, let's say, doing out a lot. They're professional advice givers. Right. They write a ton of books on self-help. Like one after the other, being them out, they're constantly, they're telling you what you should do, what you should do. I just think you just have to have a lot of discernment, especially now with social media. And people can edit things really well and have great sound bites and sound like they know what the hell they're talking about.

And maybe they're an expert in sounding authoritative. But just because you sound authoritative and you have a good voice for it and you have a great sound bite, doesn't necessarily mean you are an authority. And I think that there's a big difference between sounding like you know what the hell you're talking about and actually knowing what you're talking about. And social media is filled with these charlatans who sound really good. But they're like, they don't know. They're

“asked from their elbow. And I would never take advice from these y'all. It was absolutely.”

That's my two cents. You could give me like a topic on a piece of paper and not the two mounds speaking horn. But I could absolutely sound like an expert on like Benanna's a make-up a bunch of bullshit and it would sound very good. You know what I mean? Or you know you can do it's impossible. It's like anyone who's good at speaking can kind of do that. And then they end up scamming all these people. So you know it's really interesting. You say that because again you can google

you know benefits of bananas. And you can do that as well. And you can have your whole foretaker be like personal speaking or you can have an actress background and then you know have had experience in performance and carrying yourself the certain way. And then you can spew a lot of nonsense

and sound amazing. And really don't know anything about anything. But you sound good versus

some people who are actually truly experts and know like the intricacies and nuances of a banana or anything we're talking about. But they're like awkward and they don't come across really good and it well and therefore you know they're not considered to be a guru or an expert. So just because you can perform well means literally nothing. Wait I saw the best real about this. Like this was actually this was probably a year ago that I saw this. But it was so fascinating

about how oftentimes the people who are legitimately practicing in their industries every single day are the ones that you don't know about. Because they're not making content. They're so focused on practicing and actually doing all the work, right? Like the plastic surgeons that are legitimately doing surgery 24/7. You don't necessarily know about them, right? But then you got the plastic surgeons who do surgery for two hours a week. But then they spend the next 48 hours every single

week recording content, making footage, making whatever is now they have like half a million

followers on Instagram. So they seem more credible if they're not even at all more credible. They need to say more time. They just spend more time making content on their topic than they do actually living their topic. And it drives me crazy. It's taking me every piece of my being not interrupted because I know I'm so impressed by the way. Because I it drives me insane because if you are looking for a professional of any kind, please do not look for that professional

on Instagram because if they're actually making content, they're not actually practicing what they're supposed to be an expert or a professional in. I will not be looking for my doctor on social media. Not happening. I know a lot of people do that which is so crazy. Like some of

these doctors have like a million followers. Be it they could be bullshit. I don't know. But the

point is a lot of followers and they're they're snipping teasers and content like aren't you supposed to be a doctor? Yeah. Like what are you doing on social media? Okay to be fair to compete in today. You do need to have a social presence. So obviously I understand people putting money into that into their businesses and such. But I just think that it's so ironic that oftentimes these people with like mass social media credibility are really the ones who are not actually doing anything.

Let me tell you something. Okay about this nonsense about everyone has to have a presence.

“I get it. You have to have a presence on social media to to to show people that you actually are”

of letting you breathe in human. I don't just get so much more business that way. But listen, but there's certain professions and there are certain people who quite frankly I don't want them to be a content creator. I want them to be a specialist in surgery. A brain surgeon should be a freaking brain surgeon or a brain doctor. I don't need to hear you yamoring on about the brain 24 hours a day all day on social media and snipping and going on every podcast and doing all the

media. Like it's a fine line. I get to have visibility and exposure, but there's a fine line between

day doing and job doing. So you're spending what 20% being a doctor and 80% going on podcast and

interviews and cutting content and doing all these like teasers. No, no, no, no. It should be 80% of your job and then maybe 20% of your content. Now if you're a content creator, spewing, self-help, stuff, okay, I get that. I don't like it so much, but that's not the point. I actually hate that the most. I think the self-help world is so dangerous because it's literally like, we're just, this is the podcast is about it. It's just, well, yeah, but it's all the worlds of experts, right? Or advice.

Experts and advice in general, but as into me, like, like, like, you can get advice from someone on food and it's like, or whatever, like, I mean, it can be really detrimental, but you can get advice on how to like deal with suicidal thoughts and it not be good. And then yes, that has severe consequences

in a lot of people's lives. You know, or, you know, someone might be diagnosed with bipolar,

schizophrenia, whatever, and they start scrolling through their feet and they get all of these little clips on it. And, you know, someone's time to do this, and someone's time to do that, and like, that could be really dangerous. That could be, if that advice isn't good and it's not, I mean, and not only that, but even if you were to get, even if you are the top psychiatrist in the world, giving advice on social, right? Just general statements across the world. It's completely wrong because that

is not individualized, which is what psychiatry is. It's one of the most individualized fields. And self-help should also be so individualized. Yeah, agree. So I think it's a big problem. Right, painting painting with painting with a, with a brush like that, everybody, it's really dangerous. I call out the, in that way, the doctors be at psychiatrists, surgeons, people that are really playing with people's, like, my life. That's dangerous. I think it's super dangerous. Like,

“okay, if you want to be a beauty influencer, give me advice on the shade of lipstick I'm using,”

or what the latest trends are, I get that. The consequences are way smaller. But if you're somebody who's really dealing with a health, or physically a health-related issue, or a mental-related issue, and you're finding your advice from these people on Instagram, I think it's just so dangerous. And what I suggest to people is before you do that, maybe a thing twice of who that person really is, and use Google, because if there's no other real press on that person or real and the other

information besides what you're finding on a social media app, then maybe think twice with going of using them. Because a lot of times people can be really, they can seem, they can seem very popular on Instagram, right? But there's nothing else about the many or else. And like, you should be checking, there's all sorts of different reviews and, and, and, and grades that you can check for, like, for, like, mental health and, like, either actually there's good positions for that.

“There's a lot, like, real self is for, like, surgeons or whoever. That's what I'm saying. Like,”

there's so many different tiers. And, like, this short solo was really only to be about just overall be much more discerning where you're, you're getting your advice from, if they've done it before, of course, like we said, when did they do it? What are they really an expert in? Because it's very hard to be an expert in more things than just one thing if we're being honest. Oh, also, what's their motivation? And what's, you know, and what is the motivation? A lot of times

people are giving you advice based on where they are. Like, what, sometimes they don't want you to do

something because they themselves never had the opportunity or they never had the self confidence.

And so they don't want you, even subconsciously, to attempt it. There's also something called shot and Freud. Yeah, or, or they're trying to sell you something. Like, let's say they're like, they give you, you know, it's a clip of advice, whatever. You think it's, it's great. And then you look at the, the, the, the back to social media. Yeah. And then you look at the thing. And it's like, oh, by my course on how to be. Yeah. You're doing it. Like, look at the motivation behind some of the

“advice that you're getting. I think that's also important. Wait, what, what did you just say for, oh, yeah,”

what I was talking about. So you're talking about, so you're still on the whole social media. Like, the people, like, having all these funnels where like you, or, or high SEO where you're looking for something or because you're algorithm now. You're trying to convert this track so that they're trying to convert into buying whatever they're selling for them to, for the pain point that you're looking for. But that wasn't what I was talking about. What I was talking about is something called shot and

Freud, which is when shot and Freud, what it means is when someone enjoys a misery, enjoys company. Like, they get, they get pleasure out of somebody else's, like, unhappiness, right? So, like, sometimes, like, if you, you know, because let's say, some, some business that I did, didn't work out for me. And then you're going out to try a business and it failed. And, you know, I had, like, some, like, small piece of, like, happiness that it didn't work out for you.

Yeah. Right. Like, because misery doesn't enjoy company. That's the idea behind shot and Freud. That's just depressing. But I can understand. Yeah. That's what it is. But yeah. So this whole thing is to say, be discerning who you're getting advice from.

it comes to, like, health-related things. If you want to look for beauty or motivation,

“I think it's fine, even then. But business advice, personal advice. Yes. It's a nice place to get”

some advice, but just be careful for what you're getting it from. Absolutely. And on that note,

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or places you get your advice. I'd like to know.