text: When receiving diversified advice, you get many new solutions to the problem at hand, which is often very beneficial. For example, you're the quarterback of your football team and one of your teammates (a wide receiver) is advising you to launch the ball down the field to them. If you had only listened to this one piece of advice and chucked the ball down the field, the odds of you throwing an interception and having an angry coach would have been very high. The opposite could have been said if you would've taken advice from multiple people to rule out one person's bad advice and gave yourself a higher chance of a more favorable outcome. Another example of this would be if you were getting chased by an alligator. Let's say 3 or 4 of your friends had said to just run as fast as you could and hope for the best when you were discussing this a few weeks ago, and a few adults, including your parents, told you to run in a zig-zag pattern because alligators are much less agile on land than in the water. You started off by following the advice of your friends, but quickly notice that the alligator is gaining on you, so you desperately switch to plan "b" and begin to run in zig-zags. The alligator gives up and returns to the lake. Had you limited yourself to one perspective, you would've ended up as a headline on CNN, but since you had multiple perspectives in the back of your mind, you were able to fall back on that previously stated "plan b" and make it out with your life.