I've got a "top ten" list of examples of the kind of negative advice you may have received in the past from "poverty" types.

Remember, this sort of admonition can be delivered with a smile. At times, someone may actually even think he or she is giving good advice, having grown so accustomed to the comfort of not having to succeed.

So in the end, you and only you can be counted on to have the wisdom to see which mindset someone is coming from.
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