Stop taking advice from super successful people

Stop taking advice from super successful people.

by Chris Williamson

I’ve noticed that there’s a trend of people who’ve made it explaining things like

1. how work life balance is actually what’s most important and
2. how you can’t be powered by resentment or a sense of insufficiency
3. etc.

Here are the reasons why you should stop taking advice from the super successful people.

1. I think it’s a failure on the part of the guru to understand that the tools you need to get from 1 to 50 are not the same that you need to get from 90 to 95.
2. It’s also a basic failure of memory.
3. When you look at what got that person to where they are, it’s precisely the traits that they’re now castigating (reprimand severely).
4. Almost everybody has more pain and resentment and fear in the beginning, which is why they all use it.
5. And once you’ve achieved enough success and validation from the world to not be fueled by that anymore, that’s great.
6. That doesn’t mean that people who are just starting out can achieve the success that you now have by using strategies which you only access after becoming successful.
7. A much better way to do it, if you’re looking at someone, is not to listen to what they’re saying but to look at what they did when they were at the same stage as you.