Advice that sticks.

There is so much advice out there on the internet. I saw a funny reel where a guy's about to drink milk and sees a podcast clip of someone talking about how bad milk is. He pulls out a dairy alternative, then as he's about to drink it he sees a short clip about how bad it is. Shrugging, he pulls out a slice of white toast. He realizes how bad that is from another short clip that recommends brown bread. The process continues until he gives up and decides to just drink water. Surprise, water's now bad for you too according to another short clip.

These days. anyone thinks that they can give advice. The internet allows for both famous and un-famous alike to spread their knowledge for others to see and learn from (couldn't be me). The issue is that we are now at a point where we're overstimulated with advice - from every direction, advice is being thrown at us. And a lot of the pieces of advice online contradict each other, making things even more confusing.

I recently brought up this topic with my mom. "There's so much advice out there," I said. "I've read all these books and watched all these podcast and learnt from so many people, but how do I actually remember all of it and implement it?"

Her answer was really interesting. You shouldn't try to apply all of it, she said. The pieces of advice that sticks with you are the ones that matter; they're automatically the ones that are best for you. This doesn't mean you shouldn't try to remember what advice you hear, but innately your brain knows what's worth keeping and what's not.

Useless advice will be filtered out, and the advice that sticks is the advice we should try to follow. Because to be fair, that was advice she gave me, and it's definitely advice that stuck.