Bad Advice you will get

The older you get the more bad advice you will get. Sadly, they will package most bad advice and helpful hints or success messaging.

Fortunately, most of the bad advice is so terrible you can see through it. Unfortunately, the worse the advice is the better marketing it will have.

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Some of the horrendous advice that will fuck up your life includes:

1. Money does not matter. This advice sounds good until you walk into the supermarket and realize they do not give food away. Sorry folks, money matters get used to it.
2. Follow your passion. This advice worked great for Osama bin Laden, Adolph Hitler, and Charles Manson. If you plan to follow in those murderous madmen’s footsteps following your passion is a great idea. If you want to live in the real world it makes no sense.
3. If you have lemons make lemonade. If you’re thirsty and it’s a hot day this is good advice. However please you cannot spend lemonade and lemonade is not very nutritious.
4. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Great advice for super villains, Klingons, Quentin Tarantino, and sociopaths. For real people revenge is stupid. Always avoid it.
5. Find a mentor. Great advice if you want to be a sycophant or a sidekick.
6. Reject reality. Great advice for Trump supporters; terrible…