There is a popular advice that one should not pay too much attention to other peoples’ opinions when pursuing something you are passionate about or even when going about your daily life. The idea is that there is a danger that external criticism might suffocate your individuality. Some go as far as to suggest that we should ignore pretty much everything that anybody else has to say about us, the things that we do and the way we are doing them, being unique snowflakes as we are. I think that this trend might be an over-reaction to what’s on the opposite end of the spectrum, namely, the idea that it’s nearly always better to learn from someone else’s mistakes than our own.
On that note, I recently came across an article called “100 tips for a better life“, and despite a clickbaitish title, found it to be surprisingly good. Fittingly, the first tip is specifically related to searching out other people’s opinions, in that case about a product (googling
