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What is the worst advice you received that you followed anyway?

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Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
I did. As a kid, I liked music. I still like it a lot of course. I used to play the violin. I did contemplate, well, maybe that’s an option. I could become a musician. Somehow my parents got some advice that unless I was willing to spend eight or 10 hours a day just playing the violin that I should just give it up. To me, that was very bad advice because you could of course, get very involved in music without being a musician. Fortunately, even though I gave up eventually playing the violin myself, I never gave up my fondness for music. But if I had a chance again, I would not give it up. I would just do it as a hobby. I think that was just because I did not get the correct advice.
Recorded Adam Smith, Nobel Prize Talks, recorded April 2014; re-released as Nobel Prize Conversations, Nobel Prize Outreach, 11 April 2014 source ↗

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