{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 3811 Not all advice is good advice","description":"Not all advice is good advice \u2014 and learning to recognise the difference is a critical part of becoming stronger, more resilient and more effective in life. Throughout your life, people will give you advice about your career, relationships, family, health, money, leadership and personal development. Some of it will be valuable. Some of it will be completely irrelevant to your circumstances. And some of it can actively make your life worse. The problem is that advice often comes from people who genuinely believe they are helping you. They may have good intentions, but good intentions don\u2019t automatically make their advice useful. Someone can care about you deeply and still give you advice based on their own fears, experiences, limitations and worldview rather than what is actually right for you. In this episode of The Strong Life Project, Shaun O\u2019Gorman explores why you need to stop automatically accepting advice simply because it comes from someone you respect. Instead, you need to develop the ability to assess advice objectively, understand where it is coming from and determine whether it actually applies to your situation. This is particularly important for men who want to become better leaders, fathers, partners, professionals and human beings. Strength isn\u2019t about thinking you have all the answers. It\u2019s about having the confidence and emotional intelligence to listen, question, evaluate and ultimately make your own decisions. You\u2019ll learn why blindly following other people\u2019s advice can hold you back, how to distinguish useful guidance from projection, and why taking responsibility for your decisions is essential to building a strong life. If you\u2019re serious about personal growth, resilience, leadership and becoming a better man, this episode will challenge you to think more critically about whose advice you accept \u2014 and why. ","author_name":"The Strong Life Project Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thestronglifeproject.com","html":"