text: When asking for advice, asking people who know what they're talking about is the best option. This is common sense, but if youre asking for advice, you might not even know that the person is very inexperienced in what you're asking. Asking more than one person for advice helps you surpass this issue. How would you know the person was giving you horrible advice if you didn't ask anyone else? This is like using different online sources for an essay, it's a very bad idea to use one online source for your whole essay. I have asked for a lot of advice in the past, but I will never forget the time I asked my friend for advice on how to study for a test, he told me everything that wasn't on the test, later telling me that he didn't know what to study either.