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Most advice is advice:

  advice, n.
    An opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem.
    Information communicated; news.
    An opinion recommended, or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel; suggestion.

If the advice is based on something that has worked for someone, it is good advice. It's up to you to figure out if the advice will work for you. If the advice didn't apply to your own situation, or wasn't appropriate, it is your responsibility to figure that out, not theirs.

You can of course try to blame everyone else for the paths you choose to take in life: you didn't get the right advice; they didn't give you the right tools; they didn't explain something well enough. But none of that changes the fact that you, ultimately, are the only one that controls whether you will take that advice and use those tools, or go find others. You own your own decisions.