People aren’t shy to offer us their advice. It sometimes feels like everyone has a point of view about what we should do.

In this episode, we talk about how to distinguish between advice that serves you and advice that doesn’t. We consider why people advise us the way they do, the two flaws other people’s advice always contains, what makes some advice useful, and some tests you can use to decide whether to follow someone else’s advice or not.

I quote from Rick Rubin’s new book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. You can buy this book on Amazon.