Thread by @businessbarista

Everyone has an opinion.

Some opinions are great.

Others are crap.

Having a strategy to sift through peoples' opinions is a must in your career...

For starters, I listen to everyone's opinion.

You never know where a gem of info will come from.

Don't close off your top of funnel unnecessarily.

But determining which opinions to adopt or act on is a different story.

I have THREE criteria for properly vetting the opinions of others:

QUALITY of the person’s input based on their previous opinions.

An established history with someone gives you the benefit of being able to assess the correctness of their opinions over time.

This allows you to know the extent to which you can believe what they're saying.

RELEVANCE of their opinion based on the context they work in.

Does the person's opinion sit within their circle of competence?

And does their circle of competence overlap with the context you're operating in?

Knowing this is essential to how much weight you give an opinion.

RECENCY of opinion.

Just like you can be rusty at a sport, opinions can be rusty if they are not formed frequently and updated for today’s context.

The world that we live in is constantly changing, which means our opinions must too.

Use these criteria to help determine which opinions are most believable.

Turn noise into signal.

Then, you can have an honest convo with yourself about how to marry these opinions with your own to inform your final POV or a big decision.

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