Discover today the 'common advice' that is (usually) bad. Join Rob as he goes through thirty of the most frequent pieces of advice that you should not take. Rob discusses why it is not possible to eliminate your fears, why you should always have a plan B and why ‘going with your gut’ can mislead you into filtering out important information.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

A common piece of bad advice is that you can ‘eliminate’ fear. It is not possible to have no fear, fear is a necessary emotion for survival and if you did not have it you would be dead. Stop being delusional about thinking you can eliminate fear and contextualise it instead. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Another piece of bad advice that is common is people telling you not to have a plan B. If you didn’t have a plan B this year for your business, then you were most likely in danger. Whilst you should not spend all your time planning for the worst, it is smart to have a plan B, C, D etc. Whilst it is important to not lose focus on your plan A, you should still spend some time on your back up plans.

People often say that they should be continually setting goals. Whilst setting yourself goals is wise, be realistic that you are likely to face some challenges on the way. The opposite of goal setting is fear setting, what could go wrong? When you set goals, don’t be delusional that you will get all of the upside and none of the downside.

“Keep your opinions to yourself” is a common piece of bad advice. We all have equal rights to our opinions. As long as you are not calling these opinions facts, then you have just a right as anybody else. Just because somebody gives their opinion louder, doesn’t mean it is right. Whilst some opinions can just be ‘noise’ other opinions can be insightful.

Often people will tell you that you should ‘always go with your gut’. Humans are very good at reading each other. If there is something that feels fishy in a trusting or vulnerable setting, you should trust your instinct. However, human beings are very susceptible to cognitive bias, a lot of the time we cannot trust this bias or the ego that protects and defends us. Our intuition and gut can be very misleading and can filter important information.

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Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”

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