3 Common Bits of Advice That Are Bad for You If You Follow Them Blindly

Advice isn’t always written with your specific situation in mind

U-Ming Lee
7 min readMar 16, 2022
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There’s a lot of advice available on the Internet. After all, advice attracts clicks. The quality of the advice, on the other hand, varies greatly.

Some of the most dangerous advice is the stuff that sounds good on paper.

However, the person who wrote it did not stress test the advice to see if it holds up in all environments. As a result, taking this advice and applying it blindly to your own situation may lead to poor outcomes.

A lot of popular content on the Internet is written by Americans for an audience that is primarily American, or at least from the developed world. But if you don’t live in these places, the applicability of this advice breaks down.

I’ve looked at a few examples of cliched advice that is almost taken as truisms but could be harmful if applied directly to your situation.

1. You Don’t Need A Degree

According to the “no degree” school of thought, the Internet’s invention of new ways of working and doing things has resulted in endless learning opportunities.

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