a few weeks ago i was surfing around on the predictably irrational blog and found two interesting articles.  the takeaway from one article was that when we receive expert advice it has the potential to make decision making software in your brain shut off.  in other words, science has shown that we blindly follow experts, even when their advice is suboptimal.  the takeaway from the other article was that the more confident an advisor appears, the more likely people are to follow their advice even though their advice (even if it i was in accurate.

the lesson: we are often swayed by expert advice and over-confident people.  train yourself in those areas where you want to be the be the best in the world and then listen to your own intuition.