What do you believe? What do you take? What do you leave? What makes you better?
What do you believe? What do you take? What do you leave? What makes you better?
How do you implement advice for better performance?
There is a lot of advice — books, posts, newsletters, courses, coaches, mentors, gurus, and freshly minted millionaires and billionaires with secret sauces.
As we move into what seems to be an inevitable business cycle downturn, there is a BIG market for can’t lose, silver bullet advice.
This Saturday, I want to go in a different direction today
Notice that the title of this email is full of question marks.
I have no advice or recipe for success this week.
Instead, I’m hoping you’ll leave a comment and give me your best advice on how to take advice:
How do you take (or reject) advice?
What is your process of evaluating and incorporating advice?
What kind of advice has yielded you the most success?
A little of the backstory.
I was planning on writing (advising) on where to find opportunities in your sales and marketing operations. I probably still will in the coming weeks.
But, I ran into this discussion on optimizing personal performance and outcomes with advice twice in 24 hours.
A friend (he promised to write an essay on this 😉) and I discussed yesterday how we often wrestle with how we take (or leave) advice from books, posts, podcasts, colleagues, coaches, and mentors.
We noted that most of this content is given in the form of a recipe.
However, we all have different ingredients, given we’re humans living in various circumstances.
Then this morning, Derek Sivers published a query to his list considering a similar concept.
So, I thought I’d bring this audience into the discussion hoping to source the wisdom of crowds and hear some interesting advice on advice.