Advice on Seeking Advice If you try to get advice from anyone *where they lack full context* you can build support for any position imaginable. Imagine: "the hospital refused to do surgery on this patient to fix this problem? Isn't that outrageous?" without the context of "the patient is 104 years old." Try asking a startup investor: "should I have a co-founder?" vs "Can I get a good co-founder for less than 10% of the company when the company is a few weeks old?" I bet you could get everyone to give you the opposite advice with more or different context. It doesn't mean that getting advice is bad! But you either need to give significant context - or better yet focus on picking the right trusted partner, since it’s virtually impossible to give the FULL story to strangers in 30 minutes. I used to always try to get advice from famous people (it was incredible to me, l was just a nobody kid!) but ultimately context and depth matters.