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One of the most underrated skills: knowing when to ignore advice

2026-10-11 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial

Ali calls knowing when to ignore advice one of the most underrated skills: you can mostly ignore advice from people who are not where you want to be, in business, money and parenting, and should ask where any opinion, even your own, comes from and whether it is credible.

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00:00:00 — Knowing when to ignore someone's advice

  • ★★★ Ali calls knowing when to ignore someone's advice one of the most underrated skills in life; his general rule is that if a person is not where you want to be, you can mostly ignore their advice. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali's rule on ignoring advice applies to business and money: people hear from non-entrepreneurs that starting a business is risky, and from friends and family who are not rich how to get rich. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says the same rule applies to parenting advice, which many people who are not parents give. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ When you get an opinion, even one from your own head, Ali advises asking where it comes from and whether you trust its credibility: what your mum, uncle or colleague says is not necessarily true for your situation. — 00:00:29

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  • refine · Whose advice should you listen to? — When you get an opinion, even one from your own head, Ali advises asking where it comes from and whether you trust its credibility: what your mum, uncle or colleague says is not necessarily true for your situation. (00:00:29)

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