Dr. Shadé Zahrai

The worst advice that I got was when I worked in banking, I had someone say to me, it was a manager at the time.

He said, I think you should just go into roles where you help people.

Now, the reason why I found that bad advice at the time is he was saying it because he was trying to undermine me.

I was in a highly strategic role.

He was basically encouraging me not to pursue that and to just go and help people.

Now, if someone says that to you in a bank, it's not a good thing.

The reason why that was bad advice is that sometimes we get advice.

This is such a long response.

Sorry.

Sometimes we get advice from people that...

They come out as if they're caring about you and they have your best interests at heart.

But really, it's discouragement framed as advice, as was this one.

Now, little does he know, my entire career now is helping people.

So I took that advice and I ran with it and I'm so grateful for it.

But in that environment, that was terrible advice to give somebody.

So I think it's so important when it comes to advice, acknowledge that people are only going to tell you things based on their frame of reference.

So what they would do if they were you, or they might be trying to discourage you.

So you can take it if you want to, you can leave it if you want to.

I want to share just one other thing.

It's not a question.