How to figure out which advice is worth taking

If you are ambitious in your goals for work and want to continue improving your performance, then you’re going to get a lot of advice from people. If you try to follow all the advice you get, you’ll be a like a dog chasing its tail. There will be a lot of activity, but you’ll get no closer to the success you crave. That doesn’t mean you should ignore all the advice you’re given either. Instead, you have to figure out which advice you should heed and which you should ignore. Here are three things to consider. 1. Find the good teachers It is natural to go to people who have the success you’d like to achieve and get their advice about how to be successful. While that seems like an obvious thing to do, it may not be the best way to get helpful advice. For one thing, most people have a hard time separating the things they themselves have done from the other factors that drove their success. Every great success story involves a significant degree of luck on top of the effort, preparation, and creativity that contributed to a great outcome. As a result, the advice you get from a successful person may overemphasize factors that may not work for you. Instead, you want to find people who ar…