Advice: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Have you ever had someone do their best to give you advice only to find later that the advice wasn't actually useful? harmful even? I'm prepping for an interview and I'm finding that some subsets of advice are literally contradicting themselves....Anyone have a good "wrong path" advice story?

 

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