James Patterson, Arianna Huffington & More Recall Ditching Some Career Advice -- Yes, Ditching

Sure, we’ve all heard our share of career advice and applied it to succeed on the job and land a new one. But according to a piece on Forbes, some successful (and we do mean successful) media folks were pretty happy to ditch some career advice they were given. According to the piece, here’s a look at what they had to say:

James Patterson, bestselling author, was told to stay away from writing fiction! He recalled, “My first runner-up occurred while an undergraduate, and came from a creative writing professor: ‘You write well enough, but stay away from fiction.’

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