[pdpi]

The best advice I ever got was that advice is pretty bad in general because the person giving the advice doesn't have skin in the game. It's usually much better when you instead tell the other person about relevant experience you've had in the past as a data point for them to base their decision on.

So: less "in your situation, I would do this", and more "when I was in this similar situation, I did this, and that happened".