text: Firstly, one must get advice from more than one person because it helps to weed out the truth. In ancient times, people used to think that the earth was flat, and that the sun orbited the earth. This was, of course, inherently wrong, and eventually disproven by astronomers. But we would still believe those things today, if everybody blindly followed other's advice. Instead, these astronomers pushed through the cries of heresy to find the truth. They were skeptics. Speculation and skepticism breed creativity and the need for truth, two essential facets of human existance. You may think that this is getting a bit off-topic, but it actually mirrors the topic at hand. We must be skeptical of others advice, for taking bad advice can be extremely detrimental. And what better way to find the truth than to find a collection of them, and pull from that the correct thing to do? A person should get advice from different people, because it plays to the natural human trait of skepticism, which has long been found to be the pathway to truth. But this isnt the only reason one should gather the advice of more than one person.