Advice, Part 9: Ignore

Simple enough and done.

Ignore
No honest, meaningful, universal bit of advice or knowledge can be summed up in a pithy statement.

Every bit of advice has a situation in which the action of taking and following that advice would be absolute worst choice, and every bit of advice has an equally valid and opposite bit of advice.

• Look before you leap.
• It's best to dive right in and get started.


• Pride goeth before a fall.
• Razzle dazzle 'em.


• Take a minute and wait. See if things get better.
• There's no time like the present.

So no matter how wonderful and seemingly meaningful a bit of advice is, it is going to absolutely be the wrong thing to do - at the very least - a quarter of the time, so you might as well chuck most all of it out the window.

Find your own path. Look at every situation as unique and evaluate every choice individually. It might be like previous situations, and it might be as frickin' new and different from those situations as is possible. So the thing you did before that worked might never work again.

The fates might be against you.

The whims of luck and fortune might be blowing an entirely different way than you would like them to.

So, do whatever the heck you want to do - whatever you think might be the right choice, and see where it takes you.

Might be a good result, might not. Could've been better; could've been worse.

Doesn't matter.

What's happened is happened, and all you can do is look at the next situation and see what're your choices from there.

Thanks for reading.

Pay no attention to anything that I've said whatsoever.