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I am wary of such type of advice because it almost always aims itself at an average person. Someone who is not average might not find such advice useful and it could turn out the be misleading and harmful.
Also a large part of it comes from psychology papers which are, um, not an unalloyed source of truth.
yes, but in the absence of significant countervailing evidence one should not assume that they are so different as to render the advice useless.
Well, that depends on the person, doesn't it? Some are sufficiently different and some are not.
Generic advice is generic. Only you can prevent wildfires.. err.. decide whether it is appropriate specifically for you or not. My point is really that you shouldn't treat it as "scientifically established" gospel and get unhappy if you are weird enough for it not to apply.
Guessing here is a bad idea though, because it is specifically in relation to an area where people are known to be bad at predicting their own responses.
with a big dose of empiricism.