The illusion of abundance
Seth Godin wrote about the advice gap.
I doubt we live in a world with a surplus of either wisdom or good advice, as he optimistically asserts. Excess of data might be, but that's completely different.
Data does not equal, it does not even necessarily leads to some worthy advice. Raw data is greatly overvalued these days. No matter how accurate, abundant and readily available it might be, data cannot be compared to any kind of wisdom either.
In the past, we struggled from the lack of information, now we do it due to its excess.
I distrust those willing to provide advice all the fucking time, no matter how well intended they seem to be, no matter how many fancy titles they hold as validation of their “expertise”. When people and/or institutions insist on pushing good advice down your throat all the fucking time, pretending they know better than you what's best (for you). Well, those are not well-intended recommendations, it is just propaganda.
Sometimes it is helpful, even necessary, to ask for advice to those you trust—it helps to widen our perspective. It is wise, too, to be critical rather than blindly follow it, no matter how trustful the advisor might be.
Of course, there is plenty of useful stuff out there in the Interweb. Sadly, most of it is rubbish. If you allow yourself prolonged periods of silence and solitude*, you might learn, over time, to separate the wheat from the chaff, to filter out the noise.
But that's me and what has worked for me so far, I don't know about you.
It goes without saying that this post does not contain neither good advice nor wisdom.
*As a side effect, those who spend quiet time on a regular basis, for whom silence and solitude are not an issue but a delight, those guys/gals tend to need less reassurance than others fellas.