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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 7 Arts and letters 17 Politics and public life 3 Business and finance 11 Technology 8 Sport 5
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 6 In their forties 4 In their fifties 8 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 5
David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Recorded The Guardian Review, 20 February 2010 source ↗
Nick Cave Songwriter, musician and novelist
Many creative people, especially the young, may feel their chaotic or disordered relationship with the world is indispensable to their creative freedom. The more anarchic, the better! However, after considerable fieldwork in this area, I have yet to find it so. I have come to understand that the muscle of the imagination is strengthened through resistance, discipline and order.
Recorded Jai, The Red Hand Files, Issue #302, 28 October 2024 source ↗

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