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May 2019
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Reject Most Advice

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Most advice is people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.

• The best founders listen to everyone but make up their own mind 0:00

• Advice is maxims you can recall later, when you get your own experience 1:29

Transcript: http://nav.al/reject-advice

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