Tonight's radio assignment: ask strangers for the best piece of advice they'd ever been given. Turns out it was a terrible and difficult question to ask, but I did get a few gems:
-Don't gossip about your family (especially your father-in-law).
-Different doesn't mean better -- it just means different.
-And the most profound (and ironic); Don't follow anyone else's advice, even if they're right. You'll value the outcomes of the decisions you made on your own so much more.