text: First off, a benefit in asking multiple people for advice is them giving you a variety of choices to pick from. For instance, Generic_Name had snuck out and while he was out having a fun time, he fell from a high distance and broke his arm. He had to come up with a way to tell his parents without telling them what really happened so he went to his friends for advice, they gave him various situations now he could now choose because he knew that if one didn't work the other one had too. This is useful because if he had just asked one of his friends their plan could've backfired. Another example, Generic_Name didn't want to go out, so she asked her friends what to do so she could convince her parents not to take her out. Her friends came up with a bunch of ideas,now she could do all of them until her parents let her stay home. Unlike if she would've asked one person, and they reply with say you don't feel good her parents still would've taken her because it isn't creative as the others. So when asking more people for advice it gives you multiple options to choose from.