Why Most People Giving Advice Are Wrong Most of the Time

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]One of the biggest fallacies of the advice from people who are in your current situation is that they are right most of the time. When you bring ao a girl home, 99 times out of 100, when your parents say, "She's not the girl. I don't like her. She won't last." They're right every single time except for the one time it matters and you end up marrying the person, right? Like when they say like, "You're not going to succeed."

[00:00:22]Like this idea of yours, it's not going to last. And they're right every single time except for the one time that matters when you hit it big. And so it's one of those things where they are right more times, but they are not more right.

[00:00:38]So good. Yeah. I um I wonder whether it's a function of all of our opinions being permanently etched in stone on social media that it's very easy to seem smart to have a hetradox idea if you go against the mainstream because it's romantic. Oh, I I I I had this alternative op I had this negative opin I'm not I'm not like one of those sheep. I'll I'll I'll believe that things are going to be worse than they are. And then if it turns out better, guess what? I set your expectations super low. Congratulations.

[00:01:17]You can thank me later. You're like, that is distilled down British culture at its worst.

[00:01:25]>> Yeah.

[00:01:25]>> Is low expectations.

[00:01:29]Low expectations delivered through satirical cynicism.

[00:01:37]>> Yeah.

[00:01:38]>> Why are you doing that? That's lame.

[00:01:40]That's for losers. That's something that we wouldn't do. You should stop doing the different thing. Tall Poppy, you're the one that gets cut down. And it's all that it's like all it it shows to me now is a kind of group think.

[00:01:59]Almost like the worst kind of mental telepathy where everybody believes the most unuseful thoughts that everybody else has. Yeah.

[00:02:11]at scale and all it does is lower the bar that you need to get up.

[00:02:19]I think it's that that you're right thing which is someone says that's lame, that sucks, blah blah blah and you say like you're right. It does.

[00:02:29]You just keep punking the game. Like when anyone comes to try and like like they're they're playing a different game than you. So, you shouldn't try and play by their rules cuz they're going to try and get you to play their game so that they can beat you at the game, which is the status game of that little circle, but you're playing a much wider game that includes more players. And so, even though locally you have these your incoming information that you're taking in is disproportional to people that you're not actually playing against. And so, it's basically just noise. It's irrelevant because if you look on a long enough time horizon, the likelihood that you're act like I mean again I think about death a lot but the the idea that when I die people will be dividing up my assets arguing over who gets what.

[00:03:13]There's going to be a caterer at my funeral. Some people won't make it because something came up and they got busy. And then the few people that are there are probably no one that I have in my life right now. And the fact that every single person that I have in my life might not even make it to the funeral to speak over me while I'm dead. It's like why on earth would I listen to them while I'm alive? Like they can't even make it to probably the single most important in you know personal day of someone's life is someone's funeral, right? The one time you can pay your last respect and they don't even do that. And so it's like why would I give any weight to what these people are doing when they're not even going to be there on the day that matters most and 6 months later they're not even remember who I was. And anybody who's had a death in their family recently knows that in the moment it's terrible for you and then 6 months later life moves on. But the thing is is that we just never paint ourselves as the person who dies. But to me that's incredibly freeing because then it's like if 6 months after I'm dead no one is going to say my name, no one is going to remember what I did, then no one's gonna then it doesn't matter what I do today. And I think that some people see it as really uh hopeless, but I see it as very hopeful because it means we have absolute freedom and we can do crazy [ __ ] like why have [ __ ] you money if you can't say [ __ ] you. Real quick, if you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift. So my team and I put together the $100 million scaling roadmap, which is basically 200 hours of us looking over all the portfolio companies we've had and what stages of growth they went through and more importantly where they got stuck and how they got past it. And so we broke it in these 10 stages and we made this little kind of quiz thing where if you put in your business information, it'll tell you where you're at and the most important part for you, what to do for each of functions of the business across product, marketing, sales, customer success, recruiting, IT, human resources, and finance. And so no matter what you're struggling with, someone else has already struggled with it and solved it. And so I'd like to give you this thing absolutely free. free. You can go to acquisition.com/roadmap, plug in your business information, and if you want us to actually help you deconstrain the business and you're trying to scale, we'd love to help you out on the thank you page. You can just book a call with my team and we will look into the business, see if we can help, and if we can, we'll invite you out to Vegas and we'll do this in person live.