Who should I listen to? - 23/101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers

This is an except from my book: 101 Entrepreneur Questions and Answers.You want to listen to everyone because, as I said earlier, it is important to know what not to do just as much is it worth knowing what to do.Listen to the naysayers and turn their negative energy and criticisms into the power to push you forward. They disapprove of your mindset and objectives because they do not know you, your plans nor understand your business. They often criticise from a personal angle with their own emotions entangled and sometimes they may not be able to bear watching you achieve what they want to achieve also, but do not dare to.Listen to the people that criticise you as well, because although it can hurt it; shows areas which you may need to improve upon. Especially criticism from strangers whom you have never met before, because they are looking at your business, marketing activities and other things from a purely objective and unbiased standpoint- especially if they are your customers, as they have no emotions attached to you or your business. If they are telling you what you're doing something wrong then listen to them so you can take down their feedback and think about ways in which you can improve.Listen to the people that support you as well, because they will have your best interests at heart and will want to help you all the time.Listen to other entrepreneurs also, because when they are talking about their business ventures; you can learn a lot from their experiences, share ideas amongst yourselves, inspire each other and become accountable to each other.I have a few entrepreneur friends that I meet every few weeks to catch up and share ideas.Listen to your gut as well as your instincts because these are your natural reactions to the world. You can help your gut become smarter and wiser by learning, taking in more information and knowledge whether from books blogs, videos or other people- this way your instincts becomes sharper and wiser over time.Listen to everyone, whether they are on YouTube, in person, their blogs, their books, everyone - but take it all with a slight pinch of salt because not everyone knows what they're talking about, so they could be talking crap and misleading you, but could have the best of intentions. Take everything in from everyone you meet but take it with a pinch of salt, also realise that it is just as important to know what not to do as much as knowing what to do; so even their crap can be educational.Question of the day: What are you doing to learn new things?