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What are good ways to process the advice you read from articles, successful people, etc.?

• I do find articles/videos/etc from various websites and sources inspiring, helpful, etc however some days it just leads to me to confusion, self doubt, and frustration!  There are many areas of business to think about and work on but I will give you one example of what I am talking about that happened today...I think I am finally ready to hire an assistant and may be overdue for at least one or probably more based on a potential immediate growth opportunity.  It just so happens, by chance/fate, that one of the headline articles on Inc. today is http://www.inc.com/matthew-swyers/guide-to-effective-delegating-for-control-freaks.html I just use this as an example, does a successful entrepreneur really read, listen to all the advice they read?  What causes the confusion is thinking they make good points and/or it’s advice from someone successful and I should remember/save the article when going through the process, but the thing is there are lots of other articles that offer just as good advice…you can’t read/save/process them all!  Also, there are just as helpful and successful people offering the exact opposite advice sometimes.  When I get in that frustrated state, it seems like a waste of time to even read any of it!  Or I feel so inadequate that I haven’t thought of some of the things they bring up myself.  Or that while I’m reading and trying to learn what to do, my competition with more experience and employees is actually working.  I’m sure Dorsey, Zuckerberg didn’t read/do all of what others told them to do for their business and there definitely is a component of just being you and doing it your way, but at the same time I’m sure most successful people learned from others to help succeed and some of these articles are quite helpful and inspiring.  So any advice on how to navigate all the different advice you read/learn from articles, successful people, etc?

• Answer:

  Rather going into the specific subjective details of your question,I would like to keep my answer simple and short. Everyday we come across ample amount of advices via articles,media and people. Now, as we all grow up, we start developing our own unique pseudo-filter(our mind's attribute) which filters out the information(advices here) which we find completely irrelevant/illogical/bland. This pseudo-filter is arbitrary in nature and keeps developing depending on our everyday learning activities. That simply means you'll come across advices which may or may not appeal to you. The ones which appeal to you should be duly noted by yourself.And try implementing those advices as soon as possible at the right time & place according to you(no one can really know that except your own self).   You either get positive results or you don't. If the results are for the better, just induct those advices as a part of your set of principles or else simply let go of the whole matter taking it as an experiment.